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A. Table showing Increase or Decrease in the Number of Sheep in each County throughout the Colony.

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Number of Sheep. County. Increase. Decrease. 1887. 1888. Mongonui Bay of Islands Hokianga Rodney Whangarci Otamatea Hobson .. Manukau Waitemata Eden Thames Coromandel Ohinemuri Waikato Raglan Waipa Piako West Taupo and Kawhia .. East Taupo Whakatane Tauranga Cook Wairoa Hawke's Bay Waipawa Patangata Taranaki Hawera Patea Waitotara Wanganui Rangitikei Oroua Manawatu Horowhenua Hutt North Wairarapa South Wairarapa Waimea Collingwood Buller .. Grey Inangahua Sounds Marlborough Kaikoura Amuri Cheviot Ashley Selwyn Akaroa Ashburton Geraldine Mackenzie Waimate Westland Waitaki Maniototo Vincent Lake .. .. Waihemo Waikouaiti Peninsula Taieri Bruce Clutha Tuapeka Southland Wallace .. 14,100 18,759 1,530 26,645 28,093 9,099 2,253 33,758 13,199 4,482 5,281 1,893 908 36,839 4,599 18,475 37,818 2,312 1,175 28,101 10,160 452,394 315,547 1,212,888 419,795 620,075 11,363 55,787 109,957 59,128 169,045 294,373 158,706 120,284 53,084 122,870 559,577 466,133 112,348 19,906 1,103 6,671 7,703 54,113 562,597 157,524 537,685 80,000 713,835 051,651 253,237 771,409 635,299 440,516 656,874 6,828 644,661 408,389 457,366 147,433 125,000 105,344 5,480 231,935 136,094 265,904 369,689 679,066 403,481 14,226 19,193 1,770 27,101 26,195 10,489 3,409 37,779 14,821 5,537 6,018 2,103 1,260 55,464 5,719 24,382 47,351 1,940 1,050 35,379 " 9,530 481,795 321,271 ' 1,218,503 432,490 612,670 14,121 70,203 110,206 69,957 175,577 318,740 200,203 133,496 51,691 123,400 535,279 448,678 120,228 23,577 992 6,301 4,709 55,432 554,067 176,681 531,713 81,000 693,723 600,920 236,214 756,105 617,564 428,440 650,817 7,240 598,072 377,359 425,817 149,690 112,245 99,292 5,042 237,221 122,974 263,888 352,389 674,456 409,034 126 _434 240 456 1,390 1,150 4,021 1,622 1,055 737 210 352 18,625 1,120 5,907 9,533 ' 1,898 372 125 7,278 29,401 5,724 5,615 12,695 630 '7,405 2,758 14,416 249 10,829 6,532 24,367 41,497 7,212 'i,393 530 24,298 17,455 '7,880 3,671 111 370 2,994 1,319 19,157 '8,530 'i,000 5,972 20,112 50,731 17,023 15,304 17,735 12,076 6,057 412 46,589 31,030 31,549 '2,257 12,755 6,052 438 'o,280 13,120 2,016 17,300 4,610 '5,553 15,155,626 15,042,198 262,622 376,050 202,622 Total dei ireaso 413,428