PASTORAL INDUSTRY.
EFFECT OF DROUGHT.
By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright Sydney, June 24.
The stock returns for the year ended December last, allowing a considerable margin in each case for animals on adgistmeut outside the State, sliow tho number of sheep in the Slate to bo 26,675,000, a decrease of 15,183,000; cattle 1,625,000, a decrease of 264,000; horses 421,000, a decrease of 34,000. The actual lambing over tho whole State is estimated at per cent., tho spring lambing giving 4U, autumn and winter 19:j per 1 cent. The total clip is 148,090,000 pounds, a decrease of over 96 million pounds on the previous year. Pigs number 193,000, being a decrease of 72,000.
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Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 925, 25 June 1903, Page 4
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