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Table showing Increase or Decrease in the Number of Sheep in each County throughout the Colony.

Number >f Sheep. CoUKTT. Increase. ■Decrease. 1884. 1885. Uongonui Bay of Islands ECokianga Rodney .. Whangarei Kobson .. Manukau Waitema+a Eden rhames Doromandel Waikato Raglan .. Waipa Piako West Taupo East Taupo Whakatane fauranga 3ook Wairoa Hawke's Bay Waipawa Faranaki Bawera Patea Wanganui Rangitikei 3roua Manawatu Eutt West Wairarapa .. East Wairarapa .. Waimea 3ollingwood Buller .. 12,377 16,070 2,010 24,547 24,306 4,310 32,623 15,929 3,253 3,189 1,361 29,172 2,968 17,918 20,141 1,306 950 18,021 4,347 307,973 225,161 1,211,425 990,078 16,410 54,837 100,403 159,967 216,915 78,342 105,092 118,3G3 408,303 476,844 101,981 17,520 661 4,662 3,133 48,252 578,742 153,689 513,081 90,000 677,450 670,188 213,125 742,6G3 617,398 422,906 640,193 1,880 656,398 361,930 449,561 161,033 136,673 84,805 4,837 251,710 142,701 252,069 305,991 595,888 299,769 12,646 17,076 1,326 25,176 22,993 5,689 32,277 12,601 5,696 3,476 1,299 36,594 4,791 21,000 26,770 2,804 1,000 24,184 8,465 324,399 247,161 1,221,400 1,012,167 12,098 50,086 107,809 167,682 215,690 94,317 157,968 116,428 427,852 503,127 101,106 18,395 564 4,630 3,287 48,958 573,130 144,380 513,117 95,000 730,369 712,G41 248,467 846,931 659,479 411,821 699,530 2,778 689,082 367,804 441,444 142,189 131,675 96,948 7,770 248,034 150,887 257,889 327,988 618,553 320,702 269 1,006 684 629 1,313 1,379 346 3,328 2,443 287 7,422 1,823 3,082 6,629 1,498 50 5,563 4,118 16,426 22,000 9,981 16,089 62 3,712 4,151 7,406 7,715 1,225 15,975 7,124 1,935 19,489 26,283 875 875 97 32 >ey [nangahua Sounds Marlborough Kaikoura imuri .. Cheviot .. ishley .. 3elwyn .. ikaroa .. ishburton jeraldine Mackenzie Waimato Westland Waitaki Maniototo Vincent Lake Waihemo Waikouaiti Peninsula Faieri Bruce 31utha .. fuapeka Southland Wallace.. 154 706 36 5,000 58,919 42,453 35,342 104,268 42,081 53,337 898 32,684 5,874 5,612 9,309 11,085 8,117 18,844 4,998 12,143 2,933 3,676 8,126 5,820 21,997 22,665 20,933 13,978,520 14,546,801 654,806 86,525 86,525 Total ini :ease