SHEEP RETURNS.
The sheep returns for the year endpd April 30th, 1908, show a net increase in the North Island of 778,183, and in the South Island of 687,098, making a total net increase for the Dominion of 1,465,281. The total number of sheep in the Dominion was 22,449,053, there being 10,816,852 in the South Island and 11,632,201 in the North Island. The districts table shows the numbers as follow:—Auckland, 923,807; Nanier-Gisborne, 5,446,761; Wellington-West Coast, 5,251,633; Marlborough - Nelson, 1,191,997; Canterbury - Kaikoura,
5,306,916; Otago, 4,317,989. The number of breeding ewes increased from 10,736,846 to 11,244,041, as compare-i with the previous year. The grand total of nearly twenty-two and a-half millions is easily a record for the Dominion.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9183, 4 September 1908, Page 4
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116SHEEP RETURNS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9183, 4 September 1908, Page 4
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