SHEEP FOR COLOMBIA

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30154, 11 June 1963, Page 12

SHEEP FOR COLOMBIA

Loading This Week Two thousand Corriedale sheep for Colombia are to be loaded on the Athene at Lyttelton this week, probably on Friday The shipment will include about 1800 ewe hoggets and 200 ram hoggets and will be worth almost £ 15,000 A spokesman for the Corriedale Sheep Society said last evening that the sheep were now ready to go They had long since been selected and passed for shipment by inspectors of the society and they had also been vaccinated and passed by inspectors of the Department of Agriculture. When the sheep from Canterbury. Marlborough and Otago arrived at Lyttelton to go aboard the Athene they would be subjected, to a further inspection by the Department of Agriculture, said the spokesman, and lest any should be rejected at this stage arrangements had been made for other sheep to be there so that they could fill the shipment. It is understood that the Athene, which has been chartered for the voyage to Colombia with the sheep, specialises in the carriage of stock and no-one from New Zealand will be travelling on board the ship with the sheep. Before the sheep go aboard 68 tons of sheep nuts, specially developed for use at sea by the Christchurch firm of D H Brown and Son, Ltd., will be loaded These nuts provide a full diet, apart from water, and obviate the need to carry hay which occupies a great deal of space and is a fire risk.