STOCK YARDS AT CAIRNBRAE

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLV, Issue 10349, 12 March 1925, Page 5

STOCK YARDS AT CAIRNBRAE

not sufficient traffic.

FARMERS’ REQUEST REFUSED.,

A petition from farmers in the Cairnbrae, Highbank, and Springfield districts was recently forwarded to the Minister of Railways, that stockyards be erected at the Cairnbrae station. The Minister has replied that enqmries as to the sheep traffic from that station showed that the number likely to be railed fell far short of the number estimated as going out of the district

annually. There were about 12 farmers in the vicinity of Cairnbrae who would probably truck sheep from that station, and none were located more than four miles from Methven or Lyndhurst, at both of which stations cattle and sheep yards were available.

In fact, new stockyards were now m course of erection at Methven, and! should provide sufficient facilities for loading all stock offering from that localitv. Enquiries among stock buyers and other prominent men showed, that there was no necessity for stockvnrds at Cairnbrae. One stock buyer dicl not think the Department would get 5000 sheep from th »t station. It was the usual procedure for buyors to visit various farms, pick out the lambs which were ready, and send their men to gather them up, each trucking bm- made up from various farms. The * MrfKv..i or

Tvndburst. whichever was the more ;„rtnV~ In, the circumstances he revetted he was unable to accede, to the petitioners’ request.