A £1,000,000 A YEAR INCOME

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18848, 28 October 1935, Page 3 (Supplement)

A £1,000,000 A YEAR INCOME

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Aii income of over £1,000,01)0 is derived 1 rom 1 lie sole oJ surplus .sheep in the Gisborne land district in an ordinary good season. This estimate includes from 700,000 to 7u0,00(i sheep and lambs hilled annually for Ihe frozen in. at trade and from 200, (itni 10 2;.0,00o ewes and wethers sent away cru-h year for breeding purposes and fattening in other districts, and is quite apart from the wool cheque. For many years Gisborne has ranked as one of the leading sheep districts in the North Island. Known better as a breeding district for quality store stock than in frozen meat export, thousands of Gisborne sheep and cattle have been supplied to the fattening areas ol the North Island, and the South Island as well. \ The sheep population of the Gisborne district has remained at an average of just over .1,000,000 for a long time, and at present the district contains more than 10 per cent, of the total shoe]) in the Dominion, 'fen years ago, the percentage was 121, but. with the extraordinary increase in the popularity of sheep in the dairying districts and in the southern portion of the South Island, ihe sheep totals in New Zealand rose by over (1.000,000 between 1025 and 10.10. The Gisborne total increased by about 200,000 during the same period, but this was not in proportion to the Dominion increase. The sheep in the Dominion and in Gisborne, as well as in the Wellington'district, which is the biggest sheep district in New Zealand from the point of view of numbers, are shown in the following table:—

lambs tailed and the total sheep i are given in the, following table: Sheep l.a Shorn. Shi 1921-22 .. 2,31.8,022 slt 19.32.3.3 . . 2,710,202 ItOll ' 192.3-.2i .. 2.709,.82.3 ,822 192-1-25 .. 2,71-1,200 .811 The dill'erem-e between the no against the total sheep as at Apr has been over 1.000,00(1 during th these are frozen as lamb or multi works nr Gisborne, Tolconmni It a; from 200,000 to 250,000 ewes and annually as breeding and fattening years, but also many thousands in as Wairarapn, Taranaki, the. King ' Six or seven years ago, Gisborne d over 100,000 breeding owes went tl In a normally good season, lamb, sold as meat, stores and so t lint thi> * (list riel’s annual sheep is about £1,000,000. This is quite apart from Ihe value of the wool shorn and sold from npproxiamtely 2,750,0110 sheep and over 750,000 lambs. The affect of the slump years on the shearing of lambs is shown in the above Bible. During the two worst years for prices 1021-22 to 1022-22, only 5-10.250 and 000.017 lambs respectively were shorn, but during the past two seasons.the totals rose to over .8(10,000, or to considerably more than half of the total lambs tailed.

n the district over the past four years total mbs l.a lobs Sheep ini. 'failed, and Lamb's. 1,259 1,250,0110 2.95.3, Xi 7 1.017 1 ..“.09,7-1-8 3.(1-10,50(1 '.057 1,371,12-1 2,070,519 .712 1,21.8.27.8 2,1105,902 in her of sheep shorn and lambs tailed i! 20, from four to live months later, e past, four years. About 750.00(1 of in, and exported from the freezing r, Wairon and Hawke’s Bay. while wethers are sent out of the 'district stock, mainly to the Waikato of late Hawke's Bay, some going as far afield Country, and even to the sont It Island, id a big trade with Canterbury, and iere in one season. the average income per sheep and breeding stock would be about £l. revenue from the sale of surplus

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