BORN AT SEA.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 273, 18 November 1927, Page 5

BORN AT SEA.

LITTER OF PIGS.

PEDIGREE STOCK FOR AUCKLAND. SHIPMEXT FROM CAXADA. "One little pig went to market, and one little pig stayed at home." This is how the nursery-rhyme runs. In this case six large pigs set out on a long sea voyage. There were three from British Columbia and three from Manitoba, all of the Yorkshire breed, pedigree animals chosen by Mr. B. C. Hicks, husbandman for the Canadian Experimental Farms, the consignee being Mr. C. W. Anderson, a member of the Auckland A. and P. Association. Likewise they are the first pigs to be exported from Canada to New Zealand during the past eleven years, and are arriving by the Union steamer YVaitemata from Vancouver this afternoon.

A wireless message came to hand today to say that when in the vicinity of Suva one of the sows had a litter, and that "piggy" junior was faring well, evidently objects of delight and interest to the officers and crew.

On arrival the pigs are to undergo s period of quarantine at Motuihi Island, forty days end forty nights, although in this case it will not be a wilderness, and the Yorkshire immigrants will have the pleasure of rooting in fertile Sew Zealand soil, and contemplating on the pleasure it brings aYter rubbing noses with the steel decks of the big freighter.