STUD SHEEP FOR CHINA

Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31530, 18 November 1967, Page 12

STUD SHEEP FOR CHINA

Another shipment of stud sheep for China is expected to leave for Shanghai from Lyttelton on Monday. It is the fourth . consignment purchased by the Chinese from New Zealand in less than 18 months.

The present shipment consists of 250 Corriedale hoggets from Canterbury and 250 Romney hoggets from the North Island. The sale represents a repeat order for Dalgety and New Zealand Loan, Ltd. The firm delivered 1800 Corriedales and Romneys to Shanghai in the livestock transporter, Al-Kuwait, last year. The present consignment is to travel in crates as deck cargo on the Crusader Shipping Company’s vessel, Norman, which has previously taken sheep from Lyttelton to China.

Thirty-six tons of compounded feed and 250 bales of hay will be shipped with the sheep. It will be sufficient to cover the sea journey lasting three weeks, and for 20 days thereafter. All the sheep have been shorn and drenched, treated for pink-eye, and inspected by the Corriedale Society and the Department of Agriculture. The Romney hoggets will be loaded at Auckland next week. Two employees of Dalgety and New Zealand Loan, Ltd— Messrs J. Mouatt (Hamilton), and T. J. Melville (Hastings) —will travel with the sheep.

The Corriedales were to have been loaded today, but wet weather has delayed the

loading of other cargo aboard the Norman. In the meantime the sheep are being held at the addington Show Ground. Vendors of the Corriedales were:— A. H. Kennington and Company, J. Pattie (both of Seddon), G. E. Taylor and Company, T. J. Taylor (Ward), W. Dampier Crossley (Parnas-

sus), estate W. Anderson (Waiau), W. J. Hoban and Son, R. M. Thomson, A. W. B. McMillan (Culverden), P. N. Martin, R. B. Pawsey, H. R. and R. S. Tasker, D. S. Studholme (Ashburton), K. V. Hood (Rakaia), R. H. Branch (Methven), estate H. C. A. Sidey, W. P. Earl, J. H. Lawrence, A. G. Lawrence, W. A. Booker, estate O. G. Evans

and Sons (Hawarden), F. C. Ridgen (Greendale), R. Reid and Sons G. A. Hutton (Darfield) and A. E. Cross and Company (Oxford). The photograph shows staff of Dalgety and New Zealand Loan, Ltd, inspecting the Corriedale hoggets at the Addington Show Ground.