SHEEP RETURNS.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14864, 11 September 1918, Page 7

SHEEP RETURNS.

BIG DOMINION INCREASE.

I Tho annual sheep returns of the Dominion for the year ended April 30th, JI9IS, aro published in the ".New Zealand Gazette. 1'- These show.^that" the to--5 tal number of sheep ■in the Dominion . at .that date was 26,538,302, a net inL crease over the' figures of last year of t 1,267,916. The increase in the North 5 Island was 191^150 and in the Soutii Island 1,076,766. In the" Waimea coun- . ty the total number of sh*eep was- 329,- ---; 1267, an increase of 8004; in the Takaka county 55,621, an increase of* 192; in the Collingwood county 17.587, a de- ; crease of 352; in the Murchison county 11,182, an inciease of 896; in the . So-irds cTtintv 374.015, a decrease of !7,-MM ; in Mar'borough county 356,675. • a fKr'-isc nf 6,205. [ the r.Farlliorough, Nelson and I Wos.tland districts there were 2400 1 sheep owners, ten less than last year,' ' and the number of sheep owned in these j districts was 1,373,834, as against 1,364,460. * ' -