MORE SHEEP.
"THREE CHEERS FOR REFORM."
(From our Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, this day. When the Prime Minister tabled the interim sheep returns yesterday afternoon, ho announced Avith satisfaction [that flocks had increased by 441,657. I "Three cheers for Reform," said Mr Laurenson jocularly. "It is one of tvio good effects," was the Prime Minister's ready retort. The totals are given as folloAvs : South Island, 11,046,365 ; North Island, 13,145,---4 net increase North Island, 527,356 ; net decrease South Island, 85,699. Tho most serious decreases m the South Island are shoAvn m Marlborough, to tlv* extent of 13,812, Awatere 7497, Kaikoura 15,569, Cheviot 15,054, Sehvvi) 28,877, Ashburton 10.856, Chatham Islands 10,225, Vincent 19,344, Lake County 14,211, Taieri 12,843, Southtland 60,576, and. Wallace 54,847. Among the increases m the North Island are Hobson County 12,998, Raglan 24,514, KaAvhia 23,706, Waitorno 21,559, East Taupo and Rotorua 27,553 Cook 40,397, HaAvke's Bay 43,726, WaipaAvn 29.239. Patangata 49,693, Wanganui 50.819, Rangitikei (Hunte'rville subdivision) 76,486. *
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XL, Issue 13172, 4 September 1913, Page 3
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