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Title: The conversion of the Maoris
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: MacDougall, Donald, 1856?-1920
Subjects: Missions, New Zealand Maoris
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., Presbyterian board of publication and Sabbath-school work
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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the town. Oamaruhas several large flour mills, a freezing establish-ment, capable of freezing eight hundred sheep aday, and a storage room for twenty thousandcarcases. A very long and wide street passesthrough the center of the town with some excel-lent stores. The country for many miles round it, is richand beautiful. It produces the best wheat, oatsand potatoes in New Zealand. The averageyield of wheat in 1898 was thirty-two bushelsper acre, of oats thirty-seven, barley thirty-three,and rye twenty-seven. This is the highest inthe colony. The root crops were also very heavy.From twenty to fifty miles back into the moun-tains is a great grazing country, well adapted forsheep and cattle. Some of the runs in the hillcountry are capable of carrying twenty thousandsheep. In fact Otago is a great sheep-raisingcountry. The total number of sheep in theprovince, including Southland, in 1898, was fourmillion three hundred and sixty-five thousand sixhundred and sixty-one, and the value of wool
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APPENDIX. 215 clipped in the district in the year 1897 was £750-000. There were fifty-two thousand seven hun-dred and ninety-five horses, seventy-two mulesand asses; one hundred and sixty-nine thousandfive hundred and ninety cattle, and thirty-seventhousand six hundred and forty-six pigs. Rab-bits are a severe tax on the stock growers, ac-cording to the official handbook, the number ofskins exported last year for the whole of NewZealand being fifteen million two hundred andtwenty-nine thousand three hundred and four-teen, of which number Otago contributed one-third. The district of Otago measures one hundredand sixty miles from Milford Sound on the westcoast, to Waikonaiti Bay on the east coast, andthe same distance from the south. Its area isnine million four thousand and eight hundredacres. The climate varies; in the interior it isdry, but near the coast, wet and cold in thewinter. Snow is seen always on the mountains.The highest land is to the northwest. MountAspiring is about ten

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