New Zealand Gazette – 1869 – No. 23

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✨ Agricultural Statistics Table



THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Registrar-General's Office, Wellington, 22nd April, 1869.

THE Superintendent Collector of AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS in the PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY having reported an error (under the heading "In Oats") in the Return forwarded by him, and published in the New Zealand Gazette, Number 22, of the 17th instant, the following amended Return is published for general information.

JOHN B. BENNETT, Registrar-General.

ACCOUNT OF LAND IN CULTIVATION, AND OF THE AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE THEREOF, IN NEW ZEALAND, FEBRUARY, 1869.
(Taken under the authority of "The Census Acts Amendment Act, 1867.")
SUPERINTENDENT COLLECTOR'S RETURN.—PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY.

ELECTORAL DISTRICTS. Extent of Land broken up, but not under Crop. IN WHEAT. IN OATS. IN BARLEY. IN HAY. In permanent artificial Grass (including Land in Hay in previous column). IN POTATOES. IN OTHER CROPS.
Acres. Acres. Estimated Gross Produce (in bushels). Acres. Estimated Gross Produce (in bushels). Acres. Estimated Gross Produce (in bushels). Acres. Estimated Gross Produce (in tons). Acres. Acres. Estimated Gross Produce (in tons). Acres.
CHEVIOT 173 50 914 264 6,535 70 73 579 16 54 31
ASHLEY 5,577 6,588 109,348 5,289 114,796 1,580 25,911 527 407 6,638 279 786 329
ΚΑΙΑΡΟΙ 1,129 2,740 59, 607 3,058 77,704 1,680 42, 150 1,018 1,353 11, 163 228 925 437
AVON 1,237 1,574 42, 420 1,902 55,031 856 17, 103 1,121 1,472 14,805 289 1,154 494
HEATHCOTE 1,639 5,109 131,208 4,775 153,741 1,804 45,511 1,282 1,951 16,285 196 1,161 256
MOUNT HERBERT 889 229 7,670 226 8,775 46 1,360 141 255 3,432 51 220 34
AKAROA 4 20 633 6 160 148 356 - 6,916 17 86 12
SELWYN 7,313 6,263 169,879 3,803 120,532 1,991 38,835 320 372 6, 201 189 577 281
COLERIDGE 4,769 5,350 71, 555 3,502 62, 400 453 9, 119 568 583 3,789 110 496 173
TIMARU 2,773 4,311 97,284 3,344 89, 198 269 6,633 420 407 1,993 187 920 41
GLADSTONE 1,055 783 33, 122 798 24, 978 155 4,940 129 154 727 66 439 11
GENERAL TOTALS FOR PROVINCE 26,558 33,017 723,640 26,967 713,850 8,834 191, 562 5,744 7,383 72,528 1,628 6,818 2,099


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🌾 Amended Agricultural Statistics Return for Canterbury Province, February 1869

🌾 Primary Industries & Resources
22 April 1869
Agricultural statistics, Canterbury Province, Produce return, Land cultivation, Census, Amendment
  • John B. Bennett, Registrar-General