The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 69
Agricultural Returns at Census Periods
Agricultural Returns at Census Periods.
Land under Crop. | Horses. | Cattle. | Sheep. | Pigs. | |
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1851 | 29,140 | 2,890 | 34,787 | 333,043 | 16,214 |
1858 | 140,988 | 14,912 | 137,204 | 1,523,324 | 40,734 |
1861 | 226,621 | 28,275 | 193,285 | 2,761,583 | 43,270 |
1864 | 382,655 | 49,469 | 249,760 | 4,937,273 | 61,276 |
1867 | 676,909 | 65,715 | 312,835 | 8,418,579 | 115,104 |
1871 | 1,140,279 | 81,028 | 436,592 | 9,700,629 | 151,460 |
1874 | 1,651,712 | 99,261 | 494,113 | 11,674,853 | 123,741 |
1878 | 3,523,277 | 137,753 | 578,430 | 13,069,338 | 207,337 |
1881 | 4,768,192 | 161,736 | 698,637 | 12,385,035 | 200,083 |
1886 | 6,845,177 | 187,382 | 853,358 | 16,564,295 | 277,901 |
1889 | — | — | — | 15,468,860 | — |
The earlier figures are taken from those prepared for the Indian and Colonial Exhibition. The sheep are the number certified to by the Live Stock branch of the Crown Lands Department, as existing in the colony in May, 1889.
The next census will probably be taken in the early part of the year 1891, when the British Census will also be taken, and it appears not improbable that the people of the Empire may be numbered simultaneously all over the world.
The statistics of the census periods are of course fuller than those of the years when no census is taken, and from the returns of 1886 several matters can be gleaned that cannot found in the years following.