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A.—Table showing the Increase or Decrease in the Number of Sheep in each County throughout the Colony on 30th April, 1901.

Increase, North Island, 220,772 ; increase, South Island, 657,132: increase for colony, 877,904.

County. Number of Sheep on J 30th April, 1900. 30th April, 1901. Number of Sheep on Increase. j Decrease, NOR , HI ISLAND. Mongonui Whangaroa Bay of Islands Hokianga Rodney .. Whangarei Ofcamatea Hobson .. Waitemata Eden Mamikau Coromandei Thames Ohinemuri Waikato Raglan Waipa Piako West Taupo and Kawhia East Taupo and Rotorua .. Tauianga Whakatane Op.itiki .. Waiapn Cook Wairoa .. Hawke's Bay Waipawa Patangata Clifton .. Taranaki Stratford 28,361 7,329 38,087 13,835 80,725 41,549 54,770 17,416 38,624 1,663 90,000 12,156 7,683 3,668 68,443 81,454 39,750 156,914 41,803 29,251 5,655 25,429 18,689 315,049 861,143 547,409 1,300,578 723,898 755,479 23,758 26,341 86,430 146,800 225,619 172,259 395,528 540,659 317,947 277,089 115,847 200,828 158,653 203,889 590,936 27,466 7,425 36,493 9,698 78,585 36,784 51,518 18,455 38,412 2,882 94,933 13,378 7,455 4,286 72,822 84,904 37,397 170,519 34,870 29,241 3,565 22,664 18,737 327,039 887,066 543,413 1,293,333 699,452 762,223 26,102 30,806 97,513 168,714 241,257 171,129 393,922 560,566 326,318 273,028 120,171 192,169 151,852 207,574 628,414 560,640 149,788 148,657 219,832 71,529 63,949 96 1,039 1,219 4,933 1,222 618 4,379 3,450 13,605 895 1,594 4,137 2,140 4,765 3,252 212 228 2,353 6,933 10 2,090 2,765 . 48 11,990 25,923 3,996 7,245 24,446 6,744 2,344 4,465 11,083 21,914 15,638 Hawera Patea Waitotara Wanganui Rangitikei Oroua Kiwitea Poliangina Manawatu Horowhenua Hutt South Wairarapa.. Mastcrion Castlepoint Akiiio Pahiatua Eketahuna Mauriceville 19,907 8,371 4,324 1,130 1,606 4,061 8,659 6,801 3,685 37,478 I 659,476 I I 50,952 132,329 193,925 65,978 57,072 16,328 25., 907 5,551 6,877 Total for North Island 9,998,173 10,218,945 310,090 89,318 SOU r 'H ISLAND. Waimea Collingwood Bullor Grey Inangahua Westland Sounds .. Marlborough Kaikoura Amuri Cheviot .. .. Ashley .. Akaroa Selwyn Ashburton Geraldine Mackenzie Waimate Waitaki Maniototo Vincent Lake Waihemo .. .. Waikouaiti Taieri Bruce Peninsula Clutha Tuapeka Southland Wallace Stewart Island 205,223 45,532 1,848 10,522 22,963 18,011 141,716 492,735 154,767 387,331 178,616 744,405 225,748 647,419 738,816 657,034 386,823 550,763 526,948 307,869 294,153 159,603 119,323 78,128 210,791 150,440 3,288 289,373 374,756 792,319 438,821 938 213,037 45,321 2,146 10,330 21,313 16,306 149,548 515,022 157,242 391,718 195,273 814,615 244,594 705,923 881,633 674,490 394,927 602,705 571,502 330,165 302,628 150,851 122,322 77,077 220,390 177,059 1,496 314,144 376,176 890,942 442,406 853 7,814 298 7,832 22,287 2,475 i 4,387 I 16,657 70,210 18,846 58,504 142,817 17,456 8,104 I 51,942 ; 44,554 22,296 8,475 211 192 1,650 1,705 '8,752 2,999 9,599 26,619 1,051 'i,792 24,771 1,420 98,623 3,585 85 Total for South Island 9,357,022 10,014,154 672,570 15,438 Total for the colony 19,355,195 20,233,099 982,660 104,756