300 SHEEP FOR CHINA

Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31563, 28 December 1967, Page 1

300 SHEEP FOR CHINA

Three hundred stud sheep will be shipped from Lyttelton to Shanghai in the Greekowned vessel Kabalaris this week. They repre- ( sent the fifth sale of New Zealand sheep to China in less than 18 months.

The sheep, which will travel as deck cargo, are expected to be loaded today. The consignment is of 150 Corriedale hoggets—all from Canterbury and Marlborough —and 150 Romney hoggets from Canterbury, Southland, the Manawatu. and Wairarapa The Corriedale consignment includes 15 rams, and the Romney consignment 25 rams. The buyer is again the China National Animal By-Products Import and Export Corporation.

Enough hay and compound

food is being shipped with the sheep to cover an expected journey of 19 to 21 days, and for 20 days after delivery at Shanghai. Stock firms selling sheep to China are finding that shipping can be a problem. The present consignment was selected in August, and was to have been shipped soon afterwards, but shipping schedules were twice changed and the sheep remained with the vendors.

The present consignment was chosen by the Farmers’ Stud Stock Company, of Palmerston North, in association with its other branches in Southland and Canterbury. A member of the company said the willingness of vendors to hold the sheep so long after purchase was much appreciated The sheep, without exception. looked very well. All the sheep were assembled at the Addington Show Ground yesterday. Thirty hoggets from the Manawatu

and Wairarapa arrived on the inter-island steamer yesterday morning, and 75 Romneys from Southland were brought north by lorry. The sheep will be accompanied to Shanghai by Mr R. S. Dysart, Southland representative of the Farmers’ Stud Stock Company.

Vendors of the Corriedale sheep are J. F. G. Blakely and Son, W. R. and F. E. Brooker, R H Branch, A. E. Cross and Company, J. T. Denton and Son, Ltd, W. F. Dixon and Company, W. P. Earl, D. W. J. Gould, W. J. Hoban and Son, D S. Johns Trust, A. H. Kennington, Ltd, Estate H. T. Little P. N. Martin, A. W. B. McMillan, J. Pattie, R. Reid and Sons, Ltd, F. C. Ridgen, Miss P. C. Scott and G. E. Taylor and Company. Canterbury Romney vendors, who supplied 45 sheep, are L. A. Oakley, J. W. Gregory, F. H. Chittock, Lea Avon Stud, Ltd, Raymond Oakley, F. W. Allan, and R. W. Oakley.