N.Z. SHEEP FLOCKS.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 932, 30 November 1933, Page 15

N.Z. SHEEP FLOCKS.

No Serious Decline in Numbers. Per Press Association. MASTERTON. November 29. Interesting reference to the official statistics of sheep flocks in New Zealand was m*de at the annual meeting of the New Zealand Farmers’ Co-op. Distributing Co., Ltd., to-day, by Mr Duncan M’Gregor. According to the official statistics of sheep flocks there had been a large decline last year, particularly in Canterbury and Southland. Personally, said Mr M’Gregor, he very much doubted that there had been any decline, or, at all events, any large decline. Stock statistics were collected on April 30 and this, at times, was apt to give a misleading result. In a dry season fat stock was all got away early in the year. He had visited Southland in May and found that a very large part of the fat sheep and lambs had already been got away. The present plan did not give an accurate indication of the position of the stock in New Zealand and he would be prepared to move in the right place that the stock statistics should be collected on June 30, instead of April 30.