SHEEP RETURNS.
Over a Million Increase. Wellington, July 18. The interim return showing the total number of sheep in the Dominion on April 30th last was laid on the table of the House yesterday. The figures were : April 30, 1908 22,124,202 April 30, 1907 20,983,772 Increase 1,140,430 The increase in the South was 656,982, and in the North Island 483,448. The following are the district totals in April last, the figures in parentheses showing the increases : Auckland 837,765 (50,055); Napier and Gisborne, 5.35L393 (231,492) ; Wellington and West Coast, 5,148,308 (199,901); Marlborough and Nelson, 1,185,810 (63,370); Canterbury and Kaikoura, 5,301,595 (*54,255): Otago, 4,299,331 (439,357). -■*
The number of carcases of mutton exported last year was 1,821,426, as against 1,921,465 m-f 1907 and 1,500,773 in 1906. Thef weight exported in legs and pieces lust year was 35,663 cwt, as against 37,4560\vt in 1907 and i3,47icwt in 1906. The lamb carcases exported last year numbered 2,826,437, as compared with 2,519.417 in 1907 and 2,134,563 u 19 )6.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 413, 21 July 1908, Page 2
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163SHEEP RETURNS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 413, 21 July 1908, Page 2
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