The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 60
Agricultural And Pastoral Statistics, 1885
Agricultural And Pastoral Statistics, 1885.
page 411884. | 1885. | |
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Acres. | Acres. | |
Canterbury | 157,795 | 137,452 |
Otago | 172,379 | 185,517 |
Auckland | 13,563 | 16,598 |
Nelson | 5,860 | 7,195 |
Wellington | 13,413 | 13,962 |
Taranaki | 3,699 | 5,086 |
Marlborough | 5,184 | 4,796 |
Westland | 184 | 101 |
Hawkes Bay | 4,336 | 4,412 |
Totals | 376,413 | 375,119 |
Decrease for 1885, 1,294; this falling off has been in other crops, not in Turnips.
1884. | 1885. | |
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Acres. | Acres. | |
Canterbury | 846,753 | 1,012,964 |
Otago | 726,570 | 830,804 |
Auckland | 307,803 | 318,792 |
Wellington | 136,965 | 147,741 |
Hawkes Bay | 124,929 | 133,593 |
Nelson | 53,372 | 57,083 |
Taranaki | 43,011 | 52,227 |
Marlborough | 31,940 | 35,175 |
Westland | 3,148 | 4,113 |
Totals | 2,274,491 | 2,592,492 |
Increase over 1884, 318,001 acres.
1884. | 1885. | |
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Acres. | Acres. | |
Canterbury | 36,796 | 33,233 |
Otago | 57,108 | 40,539 |
Auckland | 28,939 | 24,266 |
Hawkes Bay | 10,063 | 6,888 |
Wellington | 8,727 | 7,774 |
Nelson | 9,116 | 8,683 |
Marlborough | 3,096 | 3,399 |
Taranaki | 2,485 | 2,290 |
Westland | 686 | 832 |
Totals | 157,017 | 127,904 |
Decrease in acres for 1886, 29,113.
1884. | 1885. | |
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Acres. | Acres. | |
Canterbury | 264,405 | 202,271 |
Wellington | 778,033 | 905,274 |
Hawkes Bay | 639,455 | 710,096 |
Auckland | 323,933 | 358,677 |
Otago | 140,708 | 157,767 |
Taranaki | 116,226 | 128,857 |
Nelson | 116,674 | 117,359 |
Marlborough | 72,361 | 82,195 |
Westland | 8,360 | 3,846 |
Totals | 2,460,155 | 2,666,342 |
Increase for 1885, 206,187 acres.
page 431884. | 1885. | |
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Acres. | Acres. | |
Canterbury | 544,455 | 489,254 |
Otago including Southland) | 465,335 | 496,023 |
Auckland | 41,977 | 44,430 |
Wellington | 41,554 | 40,207 |
Nelson | 20,336 | 22,577 |
Marlborough | 17,241 | 16,715 |
Hawkes Bay | 10,963 | 11,521 |
Taranaki | 11,308 | 10,596 |
Westland | 936 | 918 |
Totals | 1,154,105 | 1,132,241 |
Decrease for 1885, 21,864 acres.
In 1884 | 6,072,940 acres | |
In | 1885 | 6,738,300 acres |
Increase for 1885, 665,360 acres.
* Other crops include 22,163 acres cropped as follows:—3,393 acres in maize and sorghum, 819 in rye and beet, 10,056 in peas and beans, 4,870 in mangold, beet, carrots, 1,282 in hops, 79 in tobacco, and 1,718 in other crops,