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

County. Number ol Sheep on— 30th April 1892. 30th April, 1893. Number ot Sheep on— Increase. Decrease. Mongonui Whangaroa Bay of Islands Hokianga Rodney Whangarei Otamatea Hobson Waitemata Eden Manukau Coromandel Thames Ohinemuri Waikato Raglan Waipa Piako West Taupo and Kawhia .. Tauranga Whakatane Waiapu Cook East Taupo Wairoa .. .. Hawke's Bay Waipawa Patangata Taranaki Hawera Patea Waitotara Wanganui Rangitikei Oroua Manawatu Horowhcnua Hutt South Wairarapa North Wairarapa Pahiatua Waimea Collingwood Buller .. Grey Inangahua Westland Sounds Marlborough Kaikoura Ajnuri Cheviot Ashley Akaroa Selwyn Ashburton Geraldine Mackenzie Waimate Waitaki Maniototo Vincent Lake Waihemo Waikouaiti Peninsula Taieri Bruce Clutha .. Tuapeka .. .. Southland Wallace 18,700 4,103 25,001 5,254 51,976 42,568 24,915 12,226 29,284 6,012 91,285 6,632 10,860 2,558 74,592 29,418 64,140 188,804 28,003 15,384 60,260 160,986 554,369 461,859 1,370,529 589,216 721,751 58,125 138,121 201,443 132,368 294,929 ■ 449,387 494,039 220,611 107,312 180,051 549,668 650,492 76,798 170,368 31,874 1,799 11,948 24,271 10,213 85,958 542,430 192,484 470,969 151,764 761,873 278,868 701,825 827,117 687,810 452,618 661,686 568,283 348,813 422,008 159,375 128,856 89,740 6,694 244,858 144,001 331,045 370,229 990,125 490,821 21,060 4,055 26,341 6,410 61,467 43,127 30,785 12,745 32,178 7,442 93,493 6,918 10,188 3,162 78,666 51,542 60,090 208,978 23,340 10,906 64,077 187,776 612,308 21,322 445,057 1,410,251 627,923 731,389 72,886 147,946 206,656 133,007 308,300 491,492 520,670 222,100 125,726 188,071 567,864 701,508 106,139 180,882 33,128 1,824 11,261 24,132 10,076 92,342 540,618 197,871 453,626 141,910 804,364 295,153 750,419 901,122 735,489 442,612 703,312 597,524 357,998 419,140 154,890 152,594 90,092 8,603 263,047 163,417 333,905 362,063 986,708 484,886 2,360 1,340 1,156 9,491 559 5,870 519 2,894 1,430 2,208 286 604 4,074 22,124 20,174 3,817 26,790 57,939 21,322 39,722 38,707 9,638 14,761 9,825 5,213 639 13,371 42,105 26,631 1,489 18,414 8,020 18,196 51,016 29,341 10,514 1,254 25 48 672 4,050 4,663 4,478 16,802 687 139 137 '6,384 1,812 5,387 17,343 9,854 42,491 16,285 48,594 74,005 47,679 10,006 41,626 29,241 9,185 2,868 4,485 23,738 352 1,909 18,189 19,416 2,860 14,166 3,417 5,935 Totals •101,562 18,570,752 19,380,369 911,179 Less dec: 101,562 rease Total inc :rease 809,617