New Zealand Gazette – 1930 – No. 78

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✨ Agricultural Statistics



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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 78

Estimated Areas under Wheat, Oats, Barley, and Potatoes (Season 1930–31).

Census and Statistics Office,
Wellington, 4th November, 1930.

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, 1929–30, AND AREAS ESTIMATED AS SOWN OR TO BE SOWN IN 1930–31.

Areas, 1929–30 :— Wheat. Oats. Barley.
For threshing 235,942 67,722 18,229
For chaffing 1,491 190,072 402
Total harvested 237,433 257,794 18,631
Not harvested 1,220 25,020 ..
Grand totals 238,653 282,814 18,631
Areas, 1930–31 (estimated) :—
North Island 3,700 16,500 1,900
South Island 239,300 305,500 23,350
Totals .. 243,000 322,000 25,250

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 Long-terry. Hunter's (Varieties).
North Island 2,161 698
Nelson, Marlborough, and Westland 4,108 1,212
Canterbury 154,387 29,040
Otago and Southland 20,881 10,254
Dominion totals 181,537 41,204

Tabulation of statistics for potatoes gives the following results :—

POTATOES.—FINAL AREA, 1929–30, AND AREA ESTIMATED AS PLANTED OR TO BE PLANTED, 1930–31.

Final Area, 1929–30. Acres. Estimated Area, 1930–31. Acres.
North Island 4,905 4,400
South Island 18,309 19,600
Totals for Dominion 23,214 24,000

On the average of the last five seasons (viz., 5·56 tons per acre) the total yield from the estimated area shown for 1930–31 should approximate 133,500 tons, as against 130,107 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 for 1930–31

🌾 Primary Industries & Resources
4 November 1930
Agriculture, Statistics, Wheat, Oats, Barley, Potatoes, Crop Areas
  • MALCOLM FRASER, Government Statistician