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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ...keep a house of accommodation for tourists at the head of Milford Sound, and there are a few settlers at Martin's Bay. There are very few visitors to the Sounds during winter, but in summer the tourist traffic is considerable. Towards the south-east and south coasts of the district the climate is moist, being somewhat similar to that of Dunedin, where the average rainfall is 35 in., distributed over 163 days in the year. Cultivation and Yield.--Cereals of all kinds do very well over nearly the whole of the provincial district, including Southland. Thefollowing are the agricultural statistics for the year ending the 31st March, 1905: --Total area in occupation in the provincial district, including sown grasses and fallow land, 10,373,910 acres. Corn-crops sown for threshing, chaffing, and feeding-off, comprising wheat, oats, barley, rye, maize, peas, beans, linseed, hops, vetches, and other similar crops, 295,682 acres; green and root crops, including grasses sown for feed and hay, 250,901 acres; land broken up and grassed, 1,487,066 acres; in clover, 4,659 acres; surface-sown with grass without the land being first broken up, 298,226 acres; plantations, &c, including private gardens, market gardens, orchards, and vineyards of a quarter of an acre and upwards, 11,827 acres; land ploughed but not planted, 31,036 acres; area in tussock or native grass, 7,994,513 acres. The dairy industry continues to nourish and expand in Otago, and new lands are continually being brought under cultivation. The export of rabbit-skins from Dunedin during the financial year ended 31st March, 1905, amounted to 5,278,977 skins, valued at 33,524. Fruit.--There are some fine fruit-growing districts in the valley of the Clutha, from below Roxburgh right up to Lake Wanaka. Th...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781130691078
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 196
  • Spine Width: 11 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1130691071
  • Publisher Date: 01 Mar 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 358 gr


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