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Table showing the Increase or Decrease in the Number of Sheep in each County throughout the Colony on 30th April, 1896.

[uml ier ol leep on County. Increase. Decrease. 30th April, 1895. 30th April, 1896. Mongonui Whangaroa Bay of Islands Hokianga Bodney Whangarei Otamatea Hobson Waitemata Eden Manukau Coromandel Thames Ohinemuri Waikato Baglan Waipa Piako West Taupo and Kawhia .. East Tapua and Eotorua .. Tauranga Whakatane Waiapu Cook .... ... East Taupo Wairoa Hawke's Bay Waipawa Patangata Taranaki Hawera .. Patea Waitotara Wanganui Bangitikei Oroua Kiwitea Pohangina Manawatu , .. ... Horowhenua Hutt South Wairarapa North Wairarapa Pahiatua Waimea Collingwood Bulbar .. 19,621 4,394 26,701 8,920 57,699 40,899 36,016 11,876 31,523 6,124 86,180 8,719 7,954 4,509 78,359 49,129 47,013 232,750 27,370 164 4,510 56,443 185,976 691,388 20,329 456,761 1,395,712 669,513 718,505 62,377 114,588 199,110 153,137 343,907 508,376 381,897 171,085 64,276 214,915 151,292 206,546 575,994 734,133 127,956 215,673 41,710 1,585 13,277 27,006 15,339 112,186 538,738 197,609 418,435 168,181 808,706 305,489 750,827 882,086 784,292 469,217 715,941 621,972 375,044 411,542 168,799 153,450 100,640 9,518 255,649 157,170 311,980 382,695 951,019 466,183 20,579 4,406 28,288 9,843 64,154 39,871 42,970 10,774 33,009 6,776 78,498 9,100 7,005 4,081 78,665 52,131 40,146 198,786 32,714 1,119 5,598 50,708 203,012 699,514 19,632 469,380 1,399,082 655,679 717,336 63,182 132,568 206,508 154,002 350,054 497,787 395,035 206,366 72,994 214,010 162,664 217,230 570,977 765,374 140,129 211,427 42,303 1,746 12,927 25,998 15,288 119,567 518,845 189,185 400,913 171,762 741,843 272,497 717,373 838,620 720,056 333,842 677,069 550,307 325,689 340,269 123,903 145,649 95,455 9,026 256,383 163,391 302,600 382,249 855,250 445,325 958 12 1,587 923 6,455 6,954 1,486 652 381 306 3,002 5,344 955 1,088 17,036 8,126 12,619 3,370 805 17,980 7,398 865 6,147 13,138 35,281 8,718 1,028 1,102 7,682 949 428 6,867 33,964 *5,735 697 113,834 1,169 10,589 11,372 10,684 905 5,017 31,241 12,173 4,246 593 161 Grey Inangahua .. Westland Sounds Marlborough Kaikoura Amuri Cheviot Ashley Akaroa Selwyn Ashburton Geraldine Mackenzie Waimate .. Waitaki Maniototo Vincent Lake .. .. Waihemo Waikouaiti Peninsula Taieri Bruce Clutha .. Tuapeka Southland Wallace 350 1,008 51 7,381 19,893 8,424 17,522 3,581 66,863 32,992 33,454 43,466 64,236 135,375 38,872 71,665 49,355 71,273 44,896 7,801 5,185 492 734 6,221 9,380 446 95,769 20,858 Totals 19,826,604 19,138,493 933,831 245,727 Less inci :ease 245,72' Total dei jrease 688,11: