Sheep for Falklands

Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32737, 14 October 1971, Page 17

Sheep for Falklands

A consignment of 111 j New Zealand stud sheep, most of them Corriedales, worth about 340,000, will leave Port Chalmers next week on the Tasmania Star for Port Stanley in the Falkland Islands. Ninety-nine of the sheep are for the Falkland Islands: Company. Mr A. T. Blake, a New Zealander who will be looking after the sheep on the voyage, is going to the; Falklands to manage a 300,000 acres property for; the company. The sheep have been selected from studs nomi-! nated by the purchasers, who have insisted that they: should have open faces. This is understood to be so that] they will have a greater; chance of survival with the( little attention possible on the islands. The shipment includes 98 j

Corriedales, six Romneys, six Polwarths and a Perendale. Eighty Corriedale ewe hoggets, six Corriedale ram hoggets. six Romeny ram hoggets, six Polwarth ram hoggets and one Perendale ram hogget are going to the Falkland Islands Company. One two-shear Corriedale ram and one Corriedale ewe hogget are going to the Dean Brothers and two Corriedale) ram hoggets and eight Corriedale ewe hoggets to J. L. ) Waldron, Ltd. Gift of Perendale | The Perendale is a gift from W. D. Law. of; Shannon, to the Falkland: Islands Company. The vendors of the Corriedales include the D. S. Johns Trust (Culverden), R. W. Ensor (Rangiora), R. Reid and Sons (Darfield), the estate H. T. Little (Hawarden), R. Robinson (Ashburton), J. Pattie (Seddon) and W. F. Dixon and Sons (Rangiora). A spokesman for the exporters, Wright Stephenson

land Company, said that the i sheep from the Little estate (might be the last bulk export from the famous stud, (which will be dispersed early next year after the sale of (the property. The firm has ;been handling the export of (Hui Hui sheep for the last '3O to 40 years. Three of the Romneys are ifrom the Karam u Land Com[pany at Wanganui; three are Trorn J. Hunt. Wakefield, Nelson. Four of the Polwarths are from L. F. Isitt (Waiau) and two from M. Robinson (Waiau). On the Tasmania Star the sheep will be carried on deck. The sea freight for the ewes amounts to £66 a head and for the rams £B2. “Like Mackenzie Country” Mr Blake, who is accompanying them on the voyage, is married with one child. For the last three years he has been lecturing at the Telford farm training institute, Balclutha. He said yesterday that the property which he would be managing carried about 98,000 sheep, which were predominantly Corriedales, 2000 cattle and 560 horses. The country, he said, was similar to the flatter part of the Mackenzie Country. It was cold with an average temperature of 49 degrees Fahrenheit and very windy with little shelter. He had already sent some seed of New Zealand flax there and would be taking more with him in the hope of establishing shelter to plant trees. Mr Blake is going to the) Falklands under a renewable! contract for three years and' i half.