Merino Express waits
Timaru reporter The live sheep carrier Merino Express is anchored 36km off Timaru. The company exporting live sheep to Mexico, Animal Enterprises, Ltd, of Hamilton, is awaiting Government approval to take a third shipment and its manager, Mr Don Tate, expects a decision early next week. The Government stopped the trade as a result of concern about the death rate of sheep aboard the Merino Express. In the first shipment 433 sheep died and in the second, 499. The ship has been anchored off the Timaru coast since last Saturday. Animal Enterprises plans a shipment of 14,500 live cattle from Tauranga to Venezuela in the Guernsey Express, a sister ship to the Merino Express. The shipment is possibly New Zealand’s largest live cattle shipment.
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Press, 18 April 1986, Page 3
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