PEDIGREE CATTLE SHIPMENT

Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27988, 7 June 1956, Page 9

PEDIGREE CATTLE SHIPMENT

Stormy Voyage From

Britain

7500-GUINEA BULL FOR TIMARU BREEDER (New, Zeatana Press Association)

WELLINGTON. June 6. t A £20,000 shipment of pedigree cattle, i including a bull bought at the record price of 7500 guineas, arrived at Wei- ( lington last night in the tramp steamer Cape Ortegal from London. ’ The cattle were uninjured after a terrific battering by the seas. Two of the four stout timber pens 1 in which the 14 cattle were housed oh deck were twice smashed by heavy seas. The least alarmed were the cattle themselves. The Cape Ortegal was. 48 days on the passage from London by way of ; the Panama Canal, and the run across 1 the Pacific took 28 days. Fair weather was experienced until after passing Pitcairn Island. Then came a rapid succession of westerly and southerly gales, in which the Cape Ortegal rolled heavily, shipping much water Last week-end. the Cape Ortegal ran into a southerly gale which lasted until early yesterday morning. The Aberdeen Angus bull Eregli of Harvieston, which was bought for 7500 guineas at Perth. Scotland, is for Mr R. Fraser, of Timaru. The shipment includes two other Aberdeen Angus bulls, four Aberdeen Angus heifers, six Shorthorn bulls, and one Galloway heifer for other New Zealand breeders. The cattle were under the care of Mr J. Melville, of the Bay of Plenty, and Mr I. Mclver, of Timaru. Mr Melville left New Zealand last February in the Shaw Savill liner Runic, in charge of a shipment of 279 stud sheep for Callao. Peru. Mr Mclver is a farmer from Invernesshire, who came out to Timaru in 1952. He is returning from a visit to Scotland, where he bought two pedigree Aberdeen Angus bulls which will be shipped next month. The Cape Ortegal, which is under charter to the New Zealand Shipping Company, will go to Auckland, Lyttelton. and Dunedin to complete discharge. She will then go to Nauru Island to load phosphates for Fremantle and thence to Bunbury to load jarrah timber for New Zealand