WHEAT AND OATS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 68, 13 December 1917, Page 8

WHEAT AND OATS

estimated area under crop. .Following the procedure adopted last year, says the Government Statistician m Ins monthly abstract of statistics, cards have again been sent out by post to grain growers in the' Dominion, asking them to stato the areas they had sown or proposed to sow in wheat and oats for tile present season. The cards returned have been tabulated, and, on the results obtained, an estimate has been based of the 1 total areas sown or, to be sown. The estimates are subjoined. Whojit and Oats.—Appioxiraato areas 1916-17, and areas estimated as sowu or to be sown 1017-18:— Areas, 1916-17. Wheat. Oats. I ' , .'Acres. Acres. ' For thrashing ... 217,700 17,494, For chaffing, etc.... 3,720 354,496 Total harvested 221,420 531,990 * Not. harvested... 2,871 .32,736 Grand total 224,291 564,726 Areas, 1917-19 (estimated). North Island 9,932 49,1551 South Island ....;.. 284,013 435,082 j Total 293,945 481,237 . MINING NEWS ' j WELLINGTON SHARE MARKET. . 1 The fiuotations yesterday for rnininj; shares were as follow:— ' , ' Buyers. Sellers. £s. d. £b. d. Murray Creek — t 17 o Talisman 09 0 010 0 Grand Junction 015 6 — | STOCK EXCHANGE. ' By Telegraph—Press Association. Christchurch, December 12. Sale reported : -Westpor»-Stockton Coal Hpref.), Us. 9d.