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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

A CCOUNT OF LAND in CULTIVATION, and of the AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE thereof, in NEW ZEALAND, February 1871 (being a SUMMARY of Information already published
in more detail in the Gazette from time to time as received from the several Superintendent Collectors); with a COMPARISON (so far as it can be shown) with the
Agricultural Statistics in February, 1870.

NUMBERS
OF
HOLDINGS.*

IN WHEAT.
Acres
(sown for
Grain
only).

Estimated
Gross
Produce
(in bushels).

IN OATS.
Acres
(sown for
Grain
only).

Estimated
Gross
Produce
(in bushels).

IN BARLEY.
Acres
(sown for
Grain
only).

Estimated
Gross
Produce
(in bushels).

IN HAY.
Acres.

Estimated
Gross
Produce
(in tons).

IN POTATOES.
Acres.

Estimated
Gross
Produce
(in tons).

QUANTITY OF LAST YEAR'S CROP REMAINING ON
HAND WHEN FORMS WERE FILLED UP.†
Wheat
(bushels).

Oats
(bushels).

Barley
(bushels).

PROVINCE OF AUCKLAND
1871
1,854
1,082
15,552
1,772
31,393
135
3,090
6,062
5,892
3,301
15,640
331
248
10
1870
...
1,544
25,866
1,413
23,262
122
2,448
4,405
5,528
3,796
19,653
...
...
...

PROVINCE OF TARANAKI
1871
245
872
15,788
433
9,857
163
3,139
351
442
2,036
638
3,412
1870
...
1,031
19,185
251
5,466
128
2,654
289
378
2,184

PROVINCE OF WELLINGTON...
1871
1,041
1,868
41,408
3,427
98,106
723
19,970
3,268
4,802
770
5,074
3,356
2,341
117
1870
...
2,350
55,082
3,019
87,919
632
15,169
3,554
5,770
983
6,588
...
...
...

PROVINCE OF HAWKE'S BAY
1871
269
638
14,866
837
23,338
249
5,642
2,138
3,423
330
2,108
678
363
209
1870
...
1,079
25,066
829
21,440
373
8,670
1,672
2,536
413
2,184

PROVINCE OF NELSON
1871
925
2,695
39,607
3,424
75,967
1,247
28,063
4,066
5,388
984
5,600
1,297
1,288
2,487
1870
...
3,123
55,522
2,323
56,098
1,271
33,170
2,359
3,019
1,048
5,622
...
...
...

PROVINCE OF MARLBOROUGH
1871
226
1,800
33,994
1,313
36,737
2,421
63,962
1,204
1,374
191
934
5,483
564
4,125
1870
...
2,724
58,963
965
28,572
2,230
59,819
689
879
255
1,373
...
...
...

PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY...
1871
2,526
46,073
1,016,266
44,370
1,311,801
13,189
308,908
9,503
12,205
1,552
7,135
31,668
23,513
29,197
1870
...
52,425
1,461,953
39,951
1,328,880
16,063
504,475
8,275
11,158
1,947
10,670
...
...
...

COUNTY OF WESTLAND
1871
109
1
20
34
2,390
307
524
139
901
1870
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
15
451
2
20
97
214
231
1,325
...
...
...

PROVINCE OF OTAGO (as before
Union with SOUTHLAND)
1871
2,446
21,401
606,820
55,580
1,871,681
3,676
109,028
5,596
10,031
2,628
13,616
39,581
29,302
46,339
1870
...
20,861
615,775
42,404
1,519,415
5,743
202,113
4,293
6,228
2,950
16,107
...
...
...

PROVINCE OF SOUTHLAND (as
before Union with OTAGO)
1871
570
1,410
49,225
10,636
341,457
1,060
35,864
1,820
2,570
571
2,992
2,697
2,074
6,279
1870
...
1,023
32,501
8,302
258,082
2,004
61,288
1,200
1,476
544
2,667
...
...
...

TOTALS FOR THE COLONY...
1871
10,211
77,843
1,833,547
121,829
3,802,729
22,866
577,667
34,318
46,652
10,900
56,039
85,091
59,693
88,763
1870
...
86,162
2,349,914
99,475
3,329,586
28,572
889,826
26,836
37,189
12,806
69,603
...
...
...

• The Numbers of Holdings shown in the Agricultural Statistics for 1870 are omitted here, as there could be no fair comparison between them and the Numbers shown in the Returns for the present
  Year, which in very many instances only give the Holdings under the Crops specified in the Headings of the Collecting Forms for 1871,—viz., Wheat, Oats, Barley, Hay, and Potatoes, omitting those
  under Grass not for Hay, and "Other Crops " which were included in the Returns for 1870, and respecting which in the present year more full and detailed information was to be obtained by the General
  Census, the results of which will hereafter be published.

† This information was required for the first time in February, 1871, under the provisions of "The Census Acts Amendment Act, 1870."

Registrar-General's Office,

JOHN B. BENNETT,