POULTRY INDUSTRY
REMARKABLE DECLINE AUSTRALIA COMPARED Figures which have been prepared by the Auckland Chamber of Commorce show a remarkable decline of the poultry industry in New Zealand as compared with Australia, and one of the reasons attributed is the high cost of poultry feed. In 1913, Australia had 10,838,034 head of poultry, and in 1933-34 the number had increased to 15,231,713. In 1921 New Zealand had reached a peak of 3,991,009, -which decreased to 3,911,715 in 1936. The last available figures show that the North Island contains 58 per cent of the poultry in the Dominion 56 per cent of fowls, 72 per cent of ducks, 55 per cent of geese, and 80 per cent of turkeys.
Over 50 per cent of the turkeys are in tire Auckland province, the climate of the north apparently being more suitable for the raising of the birds.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19453, 12 October 1937, Page 15
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