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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30287, 13 November 1963, Page 23

These Hereford cattle are part of a mob of between 400 and 500 head being run on the wide river flats at the headwaters of the Hurunui river, above Lake Sumner. Each year, early in March, the cattle, which are run on the Lake Station, are mustered from the wide valley floor from as far back into the Main Divide as the eastern side of Harper Pass. In the shadow of the bush covered mountains, the sale stock are drafted out and driven to the “front country," where they are railed to Addington market. Usually it takes just on a week for the cattle to be mustered and transported to Addington. Once they have been drafted, the sale stock are taken out on the hoof to the railway siding at Medbury. It is a distance of about 30 miles and takes just on four days. The majority of the stock, which are sold on account of the Estate of Mrs W. Macfarlane, usually find their way into the fat stock pens.