FROM OVERSEAS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 173, 23 July 1936, Page 9

FROM OVERSEAS.

VALUABLE CATTLE.

AMERICAN SHIPMENT,

LARGEST EVER LANDED

Ten bulls and 11 heifers of AberdeenAngus breed, comprising the largest and most valuable shipment of a single breed of cattle ever landed in New Zealand, were brought from New York by the Federal steamer Cambridge, which arrived late last night and berthed this morning at the Queen's wharf. Tt is also the first shipment in which there has been no heavy mor-

tality during the passage through the tropics, _ the only death being that of a calf which was born the day after the cattle were shipped, and was killed three days later by its mother rolling 1 011 it. ,

The cattle were selected by Mr. Wayland Iloplev, past-president of the American Aberdeen-Angus Breeders* Association and president of Wayland Hopley Farms, Inc., from hi* own herds at Atlantic, lowa, and from the herds of eight other leading American breeders, and are all descended from international grand champions or American grand champions. They are in charge of Mr. Clinton C. Blake, foreman of tlie Wayland Hopley Farms.

The cattle will be quarantined at Motuilii Island, where the bulls will be sold by public auction by Wright, Stephenson and Company on August IS. All the. heifers have been purchased by Mr. J. H. Self, of Fapatoctoe, who has previously imported bulls of the same breed from Mr. Hopley's herds.