JAVA'S NEED OF COWS.
SHIPMENT FROM AUCKLAND.
A consignment of -25 cows is to leave Auckland by the Wimmera on Monday for Sydney, en route to .lava. They lrave been purchased by Mr J. f. .Mulder of Java, who was liere last winter -on a similar mission. In former years the Javanese secured th-cir cows from Australia, but importation from that country has been stopped owing to the prevalence of pleuropneumonia among the cattle of -the Commonwealth.
Last time Mr Mulder took mostly Holsteins. but on the present occasion nearly all his purchases are Shorthorns. He told a reporter that he experienced some difficulty in finding cows in sufficiently good condition to stand tbe trying sea voyage, this being attributable to the severe winter now prevailing. However, he had succeeded in getting together a very promising lot, and he was hopeful that fewer would be lost oa the trip this time.
About three days will be occupied in transhipping the cattle in Sydney from the Wimmera to lighters and thence to the Royal Dutch Packet Company's steamer Tasman. Mr Mulder holds a high opinion of New Zealand cows for milking purposes, and states that they stand the hot climate of Java very well
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 182, 1 August 1913, Page 2
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