ANSWER TO CORRESPONDENT.
f'E. J, W." ■Johnsonville.—Mr. Matthews'a book on'"Tree Culture .m.-New Zealand''• may lie obtained by writing to tlio Undop..Secretary, for 'Lands, .Wellington.- ' > ■ ■, ' The wool production of Now Zealand,' in' ..■ conlparison'with thnt of other, parts of the world, niay bo 'calfculat«d on thp . following table'of the numbers of sheep maintained!]!' l£/07, due nllowanco having to bo: made: for ■■ difforencos in tlio weights of wool yielded po." -.' '. . . I Xo. o( slimjv ;,New Zealand ... 1 ••• 20,983,772 ■'All Australasia. ■. . '".v ■, ••• 103;788,000> '•■ i; United Kingdom; i ..." 29,210,000 . . " Other European, countries ~..153,876,000 \ \ Asia ... 91,825;000 . I Africa" ..vv,,- . ... "••• -<33,770,000 I " North America : . ... 60,200,000 • ' '•! South-America ... .100,500,000-. — " Total ■■■ ..V ... 577,668,000 . Thus Now Zealand possesses about 3.7 pep'-. cent, of tho world's sheep. Of tbo Australian.... ,« Stated, New South Wales aloiie possesses moro sheep than Ncav Zealand. Tho numbers per \ State'!* Stated in clear millions, aro:—Victoria, ■, 14,000.000; , New South, Wales, : 44,000,000 ; Queensland; ]6,000,OOQ; South Austra)ia f . * 6,000,000 -, West Australia, 3,000,300; v ■ ; Tns- ;;• mania, 1J millions. "
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 486, 20 April 1909, Page 2
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157ANSWER TO CORRESPONDENT. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 486, 20 April 1909, Page 2
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