CHATHAM ISLANDS SHEEP
Many May Have To Be Killed 20,000 AWAITING SHIPMENT (N«w Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, April 13.
Many valuable sheep on the Chatham Islands may have to be killed if a ship is not sent soon to fetch them for marketing on the mainland. The Port Waikato, which usually rung to the islands, is tied up in Wellington because of the waterfront strike. About 20,000 sheep are awaiting shipment. They are mostly good breeding ewes and fat and forward wethers. A visitor to the islands, with large financial interests there, who returned by yesterday’s Solent flying-boat said the position was critical He said four returned servicemen settlers were among numbers of Chatham Island farmers who had lost heavily because both their sheep and wool had not been shipped. Thousands of pounds worth of Chatham Island wool will have missed the wool sales normally held about this time.
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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26396, 14 April 1951, Page 6
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