N.Z. LIVESTOCK FOR JAPAN

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27374, 12 June 1954, Page 9

N.Z. LIVESTOCK FOR JAPAN

PURCHASING MISSION ARRIVES interest in corriedale 1 SHEEP (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, June 11. The Japanese Government last year ■dipped 245 dairy cattle and 40 Corriedale sheep from New Zealand. These numbers will probably be exceeded this year. To make a selection of stock, Dr. T. Bemba, head of the Governfhent livestock breeding station at Chugoku, near Hiroshima, arrived in Wellington today by air. He will be assisted by Mr Kozo Hamaguchi, who has been in New Zealand for a fortnight. Dr. Semba is attached to the Livestock Bureau of the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry. He said the exact number of New Zealand stock to be bought would depend on market conditions and the availability of shipping. Mr Hamaguchi and Dr. Semba will leave for Palmerston North on Sunday, and will then inspect stock in other parts of the North Island. Dr. Semba, Who expects to be in New Zealand for four or five months, will later inspect Corriedale studs in the South Island. The cattle bought in New Zealand, said Dr. Semba, would be handed over to farmers’ co-operative organistations m Japan, where the average holding was only about two acres. The stock previously bought in New Zealand had arrived in good condition in Japan, and was popular with farmers. It was expected that 150 cattle, the first of this yehr’s shipments, would leave for Japan at the end of this month, said Dr. Semba.