SEEP FOR WAIKATO
TWENTY THOUSAND FROM EAST COAST. II is estimated that 20,000 sheep from 11k- East, Coast have either been deliv. cred or are iu transit to the W iiku o mid King Country this month. Most of the sheep "ere driven overland from the Gisborne district, the journey occupying three weeks. Three spacjil trains carrying (3000 sheep are expected from the Bay of Plenty in tin* Waikato this week. There is a general shortage of voung sheep in the Waikato, the farmers having killed heavily for the export lamb trade. The Auckland freezing companies have killed as many lambs b. dale this season as they had done for the whole of last season, which ended in June. Cattle are also in .short supply, and the prices have reached fi level ' which make buying for export prohibitive. One firm bought 5000 lieufl for export last season, but this "season, it has done no buying for tlje export trade at all.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LVII, Issue 9985, 25 January 1929, Page 1
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161SEEP FOR WAIKATO Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LVII, Issue 9985, 25 January 1929, Page 1
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