New Zealand Gazette – 1917 – No. 39

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✨ Agricultural Statistics

COMMERCIAL ORCHARDS—continued.

TABLE showing for each Land District (including its Interior Boroughs) the Total Area in Orchard for Commercial Purposes, and Particulars as to Number of Trees of each Variety, Quantity of Fruit gathered, and Average Price realized per Bushel for such Area as was covered by Returns received—continued.

Bearing—continued.

Land District.	Plums.			Cherries.			Oranges.			Lemons.			Quinces.
	Number of Trees.	Quantity of Fruit gathered.	Average Price realized per Bushel.	Number of Trees.	Quantity of Fruit gathered.	Average Price realized per Bushel.	Number of Trees.	Quantity of Fruit gathered.	Average Price realized per Bushel.	Number of Trees.	Quantity of Fruit gathered.	Average Price realized per Bushel.	Number of Trees.	Quantity of Fruit gathered.	Average Price realized per Bushel.
		Bushels.	s. d.		Bushels.	s. d.		Bushels.	s. d.		Bushels.	s. d.		Bushels.	s. d.
Auckland	21,600	11,710½	5 6	405	223	10 0	859	1,623	8 2	2,344	3,038½	9 6½	678	547½	4 6
Hawke’s Bay	5,358	8,334	4 9	352	468	18 11	..	..	..	..	..	..	129	177	3 4
Taranaki	640	260	5 0½	..	..	..	..	..	..	4	8	10 0	..	..	..
Wellington	1,505	1,035	4 0	171	80	17 4½	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Nelson	6,072	9,213	3 6	896	704½	10 3	..	..	..	47	52	6 8	32	105	3 6
Marlborough	72	78	3 2½	19	6½	18 10¼	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Westland	38	60	8 0	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Canterbury	3,096	3,217½	4 0¼	2,020	1,269	13 6¼	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Otago	12,366	9,423	4 10½	4,470	1,018	16 2¾	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Southland	60	21	3 3	10	4	10 6	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Totals for Dominion	50,807	43,352	4 5½	8,343	3,773	12 5¾	859	1,623	8 2	2,395	3,098	9 4¾	839	829½	3 11½

NOTE.—The average price realized shown above is not necessarily the actual average for the whole of each land district, but is computed from returns received from a number of representative orchards in the fruitgrowing portions of each district.

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