ORDER FOR/ TIMBER.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20257, 8 June 1931, Page 12

ORDER FOR/ TIMBER.

DELIGHT IN BRITISH COLUMBIA. • (Received June. 7tli, ll!25 p.m.) VICTORIA, i June 7. Mr N. S. Lougheed. Provincial Minister for Land 3, to-day announced the receipt of an order for the British Columbia Lumber Mills of 4,000,000 feet of mining timber for Port Pirie? Australia. An order was also, received from an English railway company for 1,500,000 crossing timbers. Mrl/Oughced said the. orders were the best busmoss news British Columbia had received since the start of the, depression.

DISPERSAL SALE.

NOTED UOMNEY STUD.

Owing to continued ill-lioaUh, the owner, «ud founder of the* noted Mohua Romney 'Stud- at Foilding, Mr E. K. Sliort, lias arrived at a decision 'to disperse! this stud immediately. ; His father,' Mr Ernest Short,, -was equally well known as a breeder it ; Eomney sheep, having founded.-the Parorangi 'Stud a at Feilding. ,Mr Short .was closely associated • with his father ,in the manage- ■ ment of tho Parorangi; Stud,'- and founded his own flock from it. The Mahua flocli has shipped Bheep to all parts ot,the world, and these sheop have mot with/wonderful buccess. Australian breeders' 'have founded noted flocks from tho Malum Stud, and both i Australian ■ and Sydney .■ Royal championships have- been awarded; .to, sheep -exported from it. . Prices "as . high >as 6QO guineas have ■ been, paid by Australian ■ breeders for sires from Mahua.

. The aiahua-.floek sinco its foundation has becii- maintained at Waituno; where the .Paroratigi .flock originated,. This country is 1200 feet 'above.- sen-level; and in the winter itirap is under spow , conditions. • The fact that • the • sheop / are bred under conditions that uiake constitution •of .. paramount ini" portanco has much to do 'with the reputation the flock has.made for.itself. Probably no flock in the Dominion has been more' heavily, culled "year, by'year than tho Mahua flock, and there is no doubt that its dispersal under present conditions will gyre to breeders & flno opportunity to buy Rheep Of the histhest class at bedrock prices. Tho whole of the Royal champions and otlior noted champions bred in the flock and the many,prize-winning shaep that have been exported or recent years, along with the 25 notable stud slrps, comprise part of the offering. 'Catalogues are now being prepared by the auctioneers, Messrs Wright, Stephenson, and Co., Ltd., in conjunction with Messrs Murray, Roberts and Co., Ltd. The sale is being held at short notice in oraer that the, owes in lamb may be shifted with absolute safety. Lambing will be due to commence towards the end of August. The sale is being held on June 25th.