The subject of this paper is the large area of non-cultivable hill country now in production in the land area mostly north of Auckland City, the North Auckland Land District. It has been broken in, for the most part from standing bush, and to a less .extent scrub and fern, and carries the greater part of the sheep population of this area, which is approximately 1,400,OOO plus a high percentage of the beef cattle, some 230,000.
