LAMBING ESTIMATES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 November 1938, Page 4

LAMBING ESTIMATES

FIGURES FOR NORTH ISLAND (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Estimates of the current season’s lambing for the North Island were issued last evening by the Minister of Agriculture, the Hon W. Lee Martin. He also supplied figures showing the estimates for the previous five years, together with the actual number of tailed. The figures, said the Minister, were of considerable value to stock and station agents, freezing companies, and farmers. In the past the estimates had been found to approximate reasonably the actual figures as disclosed by the number of lambs tailed. The estimated percentage of lambs for the North Island for 1938, is as follows:— Estimated

District. Auckland GisborneHawke’s Bay Wellington .... PercentBreeding age of ewes. lambs. 2,397,831 67.80 4,210,877 81.39 4,127,121 85.94 No. of lambs. 1,625,774 3,427,641 3,547,210 North Island totals .... 10,735,829 80.11 8,600,625 Estimated percentages of lambs for the North Island for each year back to 1933 and the actual numbers of lambs tailed are as follows: — Estimated EstiActual average mated No. of Breeding lamb- No. of lambs Year.' ewes. ing p.c. lambs. tailed. 1938 .. 10,735,829 80.11 8,600,625 — 1937 .. 10,570,388 86.52 9,145,849 — 1936 .. 10,300,826 90.50 9,322,476 9,423,240 1935 .. 9,697,231 83.68 8,114,361 8,500,075 1934 .. 9,524,065 88.70 8,447,643 8,555,477 1933 .. 9,318,943 91.23 8,502,050 8,385,569 Figures for the South Island are not yet available.