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A.-Table showing the Number of Sheep in each County throughout the Colony on 30th April, 1904 and 1905.

Number of Sheep on 30th April, 1904. 30th April, 1905. Number of Sheep on Increase. I Decrease. County. NORTH 'H ISLAND. Mongonui Whangaroa Bay of IalandR Hokianga Rodney Whangarei Otamatea Hobson Waitemata Eden Manukau Coromandel Thames Ohinemuri Waikato Raglan Waipa Piako .. • • • ■ • • West Taupo, Kawhia, Waitomo, and Awakino Bast Taupo and Rotorua Tauranga Whakatane Opotiki Waiapu Cook Wairoa Hawke's Bay* Waipawa and Woodville Patangata and Weber Clifton .. Taranaki Egmont Stratford Hawera Patea Waitotara Wanganui Waimarino Rangitikei* Oroua and Kairanga Kiwitea Pohangina Manawatu Horowhenua Hutt Featherston South Wairarapa Masterton Castlepoint Akitio Pahiatua Eketahuna Mauriceville 19,865 i 7,532 28,031 7,633 59,199 24,807 36,918 15,806 31,726 8,095 83,271 16,405 4,619 2,998 26,799 81,224 21,212 134,126 32,794 26,708 2,674 18,926 15,220 380,325 950,165 515,284 1,171,919 669,327 704,658 19,421 19,787 6,921 69,912 107,252 199,516 119,535 319,668 43,150 521,310 252,057 232,187 98,165 123,853 114,810 182,474 421,068 153,409 497,329 147,991 151,571 186,364 57,199 60,748 17,769 7,726 25,010 7,012 55,179 21,591 36,363 16,730 29,263 8,520 73,707 15,334 4,850 2,422 28,113 74,352 19,543 93,222 29,683 36,204 3,476 19,768 17,008 423,157 1,012,311 509,915 1,036,135 678,599 713,238 19,269 17,986 4,207 ' 81,861 96,725 203,774 124,377 326,907 51,558 661,656 226,223 258,557 116,675 126,952 125,015 193,648 432,511 168,685 524,924 151,996 152,937 187,302 56,636 62,024 2,096 194 3,021 621 4,020 3,216 555 924 2 ,463 425 9,564 1,071 231 1,314 576 6,872 1,669 40,904 3,111 ■9,496 802 842 1,788 42,832 62,146 5,369 135,784 9,272 8,580 152 1,801 2,714 ii,949 10,527 4,258 4,842 7,239 8,408 140,346 25,834 26,370 18,510 3,099 10,205 11,174 11,443 15,276 27,595 4,005 1,366 938 1,276 563 Total—North Island .. .. I 9,203,963 ,se, North Islai ,a 9,388,605 184,C42 447,145 262,503 Net inorei 'he boundaries! of Hawke's Bay County and Rangitikei County have been altered.