SMALLER LAMB TALLY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18545, 3 November 1934, Page 2

SMALLER LAMB TALLY

DISTRICT PBRcMtAQES HOME IVIO DECREASES Lambing percentages in thy C.isbqnT.o and Coaift "'districts ofe generally lower Hum Inst year. which-w,as onp..of the best ever experienced ip these parts. Some of the decreases are. .substantial. The Cook County, which has the highest tally witlr 86 per cent., declined .from 91 per'cent, last year, while Wniapn dccliti-: oil frotn 86 per cent, to 77/ per cent/,, this being the smallest tiguio this year among the. 'five counties comprising"the Gisborne and C'oasf, districts. Smaller tallies were expected on many properties, .this year, , in, view of - the; severe storm which swept the 1 back country just after, lambing had commenced, Losses in. several instances were very heavy. Percentages for the. past five seasons are given below:- . ~ . ]

Some particularly high - figures;- were, seepred in Southern Hawke’s Bay. Dknnoviike County had 96 per cent., compared with 98 per cept. last year, Prthiatjift TM per cent.,' and Woodville .91 ppr . cent. - H

County 1333 1931 1932 1933 1934 p.n. p.c. I>.c. p.c. Matdlifloa ... 70 85 ' 80 85 79 WaijrpU ... 79 77 83 36 77 U.'iwa ... .... aj §3 91 05, . 84 Waikohu ... 67 89 85 m 82 Cook ... 85 85 91 91 86