New Zealand Gazette – 1918 – No. 164

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✨ Agricultural and Pastoral Statistics

The Census and Statistics Act, 1910.—Agricultural and Pastoral Statistics.

Census and Statistics Office, Wellington, 20th November, 1918. In the New Zealand Gazette of the 31st October there appeared tables giving areas and yields of grain and pulse crops and green and root crops for the season 1917–18. The appended tables now give details of other cultivation, of area occupied, and of numbers and breeds, &c., of live-stock.

MALCOLM FRASER, Government Statistician.

AREA IN CULTIVATION AND IN OCCUPATION, 1917–18.

TABLE SHOWING FOR EACH COUNTY IN THE DOMINION THE AREA IN CULTIVATION AND IN OCCUPATION FOR THE SEASON 1917–18.

County.	Total Area in Grain and Pulse Crops.	Total Area in Grasses and Clovers (for Seed, Hay, or Ensilage), Green and Root Crops.	Under Sown Grasses (not cut for Seed, Hay, or Ensilage).	Fallow Lands.	Vineyards.	Orchards.	Market-gardens	Nurseries and Seed-gardens.	Private Gardens and Grounds about Residence.	Plantations.	Total Area cultivated.	Unimproved Land.	Total Area occupied.
	Acres.	Acres.	Acres.	Acres.	Acres.	Commercial.
						Not bearing.	Bearing.	For Private Use only.
LAND DISTRICT OF AUCKLAND.
Mongonui ..	224	42	64,049	129	6	3	3	30	4	..	454	5	64,949
Whangaroa..	34	23	17,695	10	..	..	5	..	..	..	74	2	17,838
Bay of Islands	540	759	81,592	362	1	..	5	154	2	..	313	463	84,196
Hokianga ..	238	244	145,048	134	7	..	16	72	..	..	75	247	146,081
Whangarei ..	469	1,155	218,491	1,761	11	13	181	436	13	3	403	617	223,553
Hobson ..	265	346	148,609	1,115	..	1	7	51	..	..	6	263	150,663
Otamatea ..	226	508	134,764	534	9	259	14	176	6	..	310	18	136,824
Rodney ..	705	1,526	127,876	1,998	2	418	725	316	15	11	167	159	133,918
Waitemata ..	743	2,501	87,043	2,889	79	1,795	1,408	666	164	52	874	1,131	99,345
Eden ..	91	712	14,164	66	1	39	147	99	596	29	498	63	16,505
Great Barrier	3	14	8,213	..	..	..	4	4	..	..	3	..	8,241
Manukau ..	565	4,580	105,926	627	1	53	102	151	86	8	521	170	112,790
Franklin ..	2,059	8,887	164,710	3,266	..	18	80	197	15	4	897	390	190,523
Waikato ..	1,131	6,921	147,499	2,500	29	160	174	145	36	14	841	2,692	162,142
Raglan ..	1,139	4,863	270,539	2,137	..	10	4	88	4	..	363	816	279,963
Waipa ..	1,397	7,928	114,081	626	..	13	62	136	4	6	563	319	125,135
Kawhia ..	345	1,030	57,938	..	..	3	..	4	..	..	46	20	59,386
Awakino ..	108	791	90,569	1	..	..	5	19	..	..	74	484	92,046
Waitomo ..	1,077	9,901	265,696	133	..	7	2	176	..	..	552	407	277,954
Coromandel	92	232	51,878	62	..	..	..	13	..	..	61	4	52,344
Thames ..	365	783	54,497	143	3	89	147	57	32	..	118	364	56,598
Ohinemuri ..	337	2,957	58,716	1,050	1	41	32	93	..	..	260	407	63,894
Tauranga ..	3,395	4,148	97,240	603	27	77	137	125	12	..	337	255	106,356
Piako ..	1,169	9,394	134,053	1,561	..	26	37	103	9	1	585	438	147,376
Matamata ..	1,279	16,027	140,408	8,110	..	..	..	108	12	..	661	805	167,410
Rotorua ..	212	1,963	36,750	50	..	..	..	47	..	..	74	114	39,210
Whakatane..	2,025	3,964	69,499	161	..	4	11	82	..	..	215	5	75,966
Opotiki ..	615	781	109,472	30	..	..	..	42	..	..	177	611	111,728
East Taupo	318	658	42,210	61	..	..	..	..	..	..	24	59	43,330
West Taupo	879	6,093	103,141	259	..	6	..	7	..	..	272	122	110,779
Totals ..	22,045	99,731	3,162,366	30,378	177	3,040	3,303	3,597	1,010	128	9,818	11,450	3,347,043

LAND DISTRICT OF HAWKE’S BAY.

| Waiapu .. | 1,362 | 968 | 388,520 | 26 | .. | 2 | .. | 63 | 1 | .. | 544 | 52 | 391,538 | 102,541 | 494,079 |
| Waikohu .. | 977 | 550 | 397,516 | 40 | .. | 24 | 11 | 18 | 1 | .. | 100 | 176 | 399,413 | 119,638 | 519,051 |
| Cook .. | 2,012 | 1,908 | 526,238 | 4 | 1 | 80 | 78 | 66 | 20 | .. | 771 | 974 | 532,152 | 103,196 | 635,348 |
| Wairoa .. | 1,328 | 1,840 | 315,561 | 58 | .. | .. | .. | 48 | .. | .. | 193 | 135 | 319,163 | 420,914 | 740,077 |
| Hawke’s Bay | 5,163 | 14,526 | 371,597 | 82 | 50 | 811 | 1,123 | 121 | 115 | 80 | 1,348 | 3,731 | 398,747 | 640,317 | 1,039,064 |
| Waipukurau | 479 | 1,854 | 27,308 | 126 | .. | 3 | 35 | 7 | .. | .. | 153 | 306 | 30,271 | 32,435 | 62,706 |
| Waipawa .. | 3,273 | 7,257 | 200,886 | 385 | .. | 20 | .. | 29 | 10 | .. | 575 | 772 | 213,207 | 57,504 | 270,711 |
| Woodville .. | 794 | 2,142 | 68,589 | 17 | .. | 4 | 42 | 53 | 1 | .. | 200 | 52 | 71,894 | 2,902 | 74,796 |

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