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

Number of Slice]). County. Iucrease. Decrease. 1888. 1889. Mongonui Bay of Islands Hokianga Rodney Whangarei Hobdon Otamatea llanukau Waiteraata Eden Thames Coromandel Ohinemuri Waikato Raglan .. Waipa, Piako West Taupo and Kawhia .. Tauranga Whakatane East Taupo Cook Wairoa Hawke's Bay Waipawa Patangata Taranaki Hawera .. Patoa .. Waitotara Wanganui Rangitikei Oroua Manawatu Horowhenua Hutt South Wairarapa North Wairarapa Pahiatua Waimea Collingwood Buller .. Grey Inangahua Westland Sounds .. Marlborough Kaikoura Amuri Cheviot Ashley Selwyn .. Akaroa Ashburton Geraldine .. .. Mackenzie Waimate Waitaki .. .. Maniototo Vincent Lake Waihemo Waikouaiti Peninsula Taieri Bruce Clutha .. Tuapeka Southland Wallace 14,226 19,193 1,770 27,101 26,195 3,409 10,489 37,779 14,821 5,537 6,018 2,103 1,410 53,030 5,719 24,382 47,201 4,368 9,530 35,379 1,050 481,795 329,470 1,175,706 429,020 653,753 14,121 70,803 109,606 69,057 172,562 318,740 200,203 133,490 51,691 123,400 448,678 526,412 8,867 120,228 23,577 9! 12 6,301 4,709 7,240 55,432 554,007 176,681 466,213 146,500 693,723 600,920 236,214 756,105 617,564 428,440 650,817 598,072 377,359 425,817 149,690 112,245 99,292 5,042 237,221 122,974 263,888 852,389 674,456 409,034 14,797 15,992 2,036 30,886 27,676 4,609 • 14,940 52,339 18,770 5,661 7,372 2,948 2,070 39,174 7,586 28,081 85,585 8,182 14,007 42,454 51S,489 293,717 1,189,740 447,570 658,567 21,316 97,004 107,058 70,922 194,404 362,019 248,140 157,023 02,402 116,198 464,571 532,274 17,165 132,265 26,192 1,098 7,484 8,309 7,241 58,981 556,530 190,397 466,421 145,595 708,140 662,970 236,329 721,507 630,577 393,813 644,302 558,403 368,979 428,554 149,744 122,374 95,016 4,271 253,545 119,369 276,108 359,332 705,581 393,662 571 266 3,785 1,481 1,200 -1,451 14,560 3,949 24 1,354 845 660 1,867 3,699 38,384 3,814 4,477 7,075 36,694 14,034 18,550 4,814 7,195 26,801 7,865 21,842 43,279 47,937 23,527 10,711 3,201 13,862 1,050 35,753 2,548 *7,202 15,893 5,862 8,298 12,037 2,615 101 1,183 3,600 1 3,549 2,463 13,716 208 14,417 62,050 115 "i,905 13,013 34,598 34,627 6,515 89,669 8,380 2,737 54 10,129 4,276 771 16,324 12,220 6,943 31,125 3,605 15,372 15,042,198 15,423,328 594,464 213,334 213,334 Total ini :rease