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OTAGO SHEEP DISTRICT— continued.

TABLE SHOWING NUMBER OF SHEEP IN THE DOMINION SINCE 1896.

Authority : W. A. G. Skinner, Government Printer, Wellington.—l 923.

Price Kls 6d.]

April 30,1 April 30, 1922. I 1923. No. of Sheep on No. of Sheep on April 30, April 30, 1922. 1923. Wallace County— continued. Young, It. S., Orepuki Young, Thomas H., Waihoaka .. Young, William, Mossburn 38 284 815 81 340 1,118 Stewart Island County -continued. McCarthy, Mrs. H. A., Ruapuke, Bluff Newton, Mrs. George, Ruapuke, Bluff Nilsen, Hans G, Lighthouse Attendant, The Neck, Half-moon Bay Patuki, The Hon. John Topi, Ruapuke Rita, Henry, Ruapuke, Bluff Robertson, William, Half-moon Bay Russell, Mrs. A. M., Ruapuke Island, Bluff Tolsen, Lance, c/o William Robertson, Halfmoon Bay Topi, Maurice, Ruapuke, Bluff Traill, A. W., jun., Half-moon Bay, Stewart Island Waitiri, I., Ruapuke Island, Bluff — 102 085 002 — 90 685 STEWART ISLAND COUNTY (In Southland Subdivision). Barrio, James, Island Hill Run (address : Stewart Island) Bragg, John, Ha If-moon Bay Dawson, Mrs. S., Stewart, Island Dawson, William, Stewart Island Isaac, James, Ruapuke Joss, Walter, Ulva, Paterson's Inlet 408,071 398,655 1,253 Nil 393 100 211 159 272 280 28 25 1,253 393 211 272 28 750 Nil 503 404 — 650 563 39 80 32 Nil 180 56 Nil 112 112 101 51 92 4,529 2,787 4,529

fear. 1896 Number of Sheep. 19,138,493 Year. Number of Sheep. 1903 .. 18,954,553 Year. Number of Sheep. 1910 .. 24,269,620 Year. 1917 Number of Sheep. 25,270,386 1897 19,687,954 1904 .. 18,280,806 1911 .. 23,1196,126 1918 26,538,302 L898 19,673,725 1905 .. 19,130,875 1912 .. 23,750,153 1919 25,828,554 1899 19,348,506 1906 .. 20,108,471 1913 .. 24,191,810 1920 23,919,970* .900 19,355,195 1907 .. 20,983,772 1914 .. 24,798,763 1921 23,285,031 .901 20,233,099 1908 .. 22,449,053 1915 .. 24,901,421 1922 22,222,259 .902 20,342,727 1909 .. 23,480,707 1916 .. 24,788,150 1923 23,081,439 » This total includes the dial ham Islands return for 1920.