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AGRICULTURAL AND PASTORAL STATISTICS OF NEW ZEALAND, 1861-1954, compiled by B. L. Evans; Government Printer, 40 pp. HESE tables are published as an Appendix to Réport on the Farm Production Statistics of New Zealand for the Season 1954-55. They represent a great deal of painstaking research, and in their present form will be of great use to any who have occasion to study the historical, geographical, economic or agricultural development of the Dominion or of its various Land Districts. The tables reflect the history. of farming in this country which, as Mr. Evans points out in his preface, falls into four fairly well defined periods. The first is from the beginnings up to 1882, when production was limited to weol and grain. The second, from the advent of refrigeration to 1914, saw the rapid growth of the frozen meat industry, the breaking up of many of the larger holdings, and the golden age of cereal cropping in the South Island with huge exportable surpluses of wheat and oats. In the third period, 1914-1936, the chief feature of production was the growth of the dairy industry and the decline in cereal cropping, and on the technical side the improvement of pasture plants, the extension of topdressing and the development of motor transport. The last period, from 1936 to date, has witnessed the change over from "free" to -"controlled" marketing, a general increase in production with a further decline in cereal growing, and on the technical side the mechanisation of farming-in all departments and the introduction of aerial topdressing. The period is also one in which population increased proportionately more rapidly than _ procuction. That is the problem of today. ;
L. J.
W.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 902, 16 November 1956, Page 14
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