New Zealand Gazette – 1929 – No. 74

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✨ Agricultural Statistics



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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 74

Estimated Areas under Wheat, Oats, Barley, and Potatoes (Season 1929-30).

Census and Statistics Office,
Wellington, 6th November, 1929.

As in previous years, cards were sent out by post to grain-growers and to potato-growers throughout the Dominion, asking them to state what areas they had sown or planted, or intended to sow or plant, in wheat, oats, barley, and potatoes this season.

WHEAT, OATS, AND BARLEY.—FINAL AREAS, 1928–29, AND AREAS ESTIMATED AS SOWN OR TO BE SOWN IN 1929–30.

— Wheat. Oats. Barley.
Areas, 1928–29 :— Acres. Acres. Acres.
For threshing 255,312 73,101 19,500
For chaffing 1,272 194,638 340
Total harvested 256,584 267,739 19,840
Not harvested 1,289 15,394 ..
Grand totals 257,873 283,133 19,840
Areas, 1929–30 (estimated) :—
North Island 2,650 15,500 1,700
South Island 231,850 259,500 18,800
Totals.. 234,500 275,000 20,500

Particulars as to varieties of wheat and of oats sown or intended to be sown were asked for. The following table gives a summary of results in cases where varieties were specified :—

— Wheat. Oats.
Tuscan or Longberry. Hunter’s (Varieties). Velvet or Pearl. Total Specified Varieties. White. Dun. Black. Algerian. Total Specified Varieties.
Acres. Acres. Acres. Acres. Acres. Acres. Acres. Acres. Acres.
North Island 1,184 579 509 2,272 767 197 49 10,371 11,384
Nelson, Marlborough, and Westland 2,744 1,517 319 4,580 1,087 579 84 10,156 11,906
Canterbury 149,318 27,722 9,610 186,650 66,224 13,857 1,913 44,210 126,204
Otago and Southland 15,273 7,108 4,456 26,837 69,437 7,267 6,283 6,363 89,350
Dominion totals 168,519 36,926 14,894 220,339 137,515 21,900 8,329 71,100 238,844

Tabulation of statistics for potatoes gives the following results :—

POTATOES.—FINAL AREA, 1928–29, AND AREA ESTIMATED AS PLANTED OR TO BE PLANTED, 1929–30.

Final Area, 1928–29. Acres. Estimated Area, 1929–30. Acres.
North Island 4,951 4,900
South Island 16,353 17,700
Totals for Dominion 21,304 22,600

On the average of the last five seasons (viz., 5·49 tons per acre) the total yield from the estimated area shown for 1929–30 should approximate 124,000 tons, as against 123,607 tons last season.

It may be well to note that only holdings of 1 acre and over outside borough boundaries are covered by these figures. In the case of potatoes a fair amount is undoubtedly grown on the smaller holdings and on holdings situated within boroughs.

MALCOLM FRASER,
Government Statistician.



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🌾 Estimated Areas under Wheat, Oats, Barley, and Potatoes (Season 1929-30)

🌾 Primary Industries & Resources
6 November 1929
Agriculture, Statistics, Wheat, Oats, Barley, Potatoes, Crop Areas
  • MALCOLM FRASER, Government Statistician