DOMINION’S LAMBS
ESTIMATED AT OYER 15,000,000 STATISTICS OF PERCENTAGES.
WELLINGTON, December 18
An estimate of the current year’s lambing for the Dominion prepared by the Department of Agriculture shows that the 17,209,000 'breeding ewes are expected to produce 15,457,000 lambs giving a percentage of 89.82. In the North Island 9,318,000 ewes are estimated to give a percentage of 91,23 which is higher than any percentage recorded during the last six years. In the South Island 7,890,000 ewes are estimated to have a percentage of 88.14 of lambs, which is a fraction less than last year. The whole Dominion average is 1 per cent, higher than last year and higher than it has been in any of the last eix years. Taking th e figures according to the. six districts into which the Dominion is divided much the highest yield is estimated to come from the Welling-ton-West Coast area. There a percentage of 95.26 is expected to come from 3,591,000 ewes. Tn Auckland the percentage is 88.71 from 1,783,000 ewes and in C-interbury-Kaikoura 85.97 from 3.396,000.
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 December 1933, Page 8
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175DOMINION’S LAMBS Hokitika Guardian, 20 December 1933, Page 8
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