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A.—Table showing the Number of Sheep in each County throughout the Colony on 30th April, 1905 and 1906.

County. Number of Sheep on Increase. Decrease. 30th April, 1905. 30th April, 1906. NORT] 'H ISLAND. Mongonui .. .. • • • • • • j Whangaroa Bay of Islands Hokianga Rodney Whangarei .. .. Otamatea Hobson .. Waitemata Eden Manukau Coromandel Thames Ohinemuri Waikato Raglan Waipa Piako West Taupo, Kavvhia, Awakino, and Waitomo East Taupo and Rotorua .. .. .. . • • Tauranga Whakatane Opotiki Waiapu Cook Wairoa Hawke's Bay* Waipavva aud Woodville Patangata and Weber Clifton .. Taranaki Egmont Stratford Hawera Patea Waitotara Waimarino Wanganui _, . ., •, (Hunterville subdivision Rangitikei* | Fei i ding , .. } Oroua and Kairanga Kiwitea .. .. .. Pohangina Manawatu Horowhenua Hutt Featherston South Wairarapa Masterton Castlepoint Akitio Pahiatua Eketahuna Maurioeville 17,769 7,726 ! 25,010 7,012 55,179 21,591 36,363 16,730 29,263 8,520 73,707 15,334 4,850 2,422 28,113 74,352 19,543 93,222 29,683 I 36,204 3,476 19,768 17,008 423,157 1,012,311 509,915 1,036,135 678,599 713,238 19,269 17,986 4,207 81,861 96,725 203,774 124,377 51,558 326,907 i 17,244 8,280 25,607 6,671 52,164 21,646 38,223 18,404 33,263 6,936 75,413 14,954 5,201 3,131 28,191 75,030 22,386 86,076 40,428 30,246 5,616 20,433 19,222 456,012 1,123,085 536,454 1,045,659 716,286 739,385 26,312 28,977 4,673 90,371 . 111,509 231,413 146,446 58,972 360,948 541,530) 175,576 j" 259,289 282,825 121,941 147,054 130,858 203,902 427,091 158,170 550,488 162,279 167,038 218,011 64,508 67,904 554 597 55 1,860 1,674 4,000 1,706 351 709 78 678 2,843 10,745 325 341 3,015 1,584 380 7,146 5,958 2,140 665 2,214 32,855 110,774 26,539 9,524 37,687 26,147 7,043 10,991 466 8,510 14,784 2,7,639 22,069 7,414 34,041 661,656 55,450 226,223 258,557 116,675 126,952 125,015 ' 193,648 432,511 168,685 524,924 151,996 152,937 187,302 56,636 62,024 33,066 24,268 5,266 20,102 5,843 10,254 '5,420 10,515 25,564 10,283 14,101 30,709 7,872 5,880 Totals—North Island 9,388,605 ,ae, North Islai I 10,009,731 656,010 34,884 Net inorei id 621,126 1)01 indaries of Hawke's Ba; Count; and Ban; ;itikei Count; have been altered.