DEVELOPMENT IN THE NORTH

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 400, 8 January 1909, Page 2

DEVELOPMENT IN THE NORTH

: SHEEP AND LAMBS: NEW.STOCK t ROUTE. (bi Tii.Banirn.—srisciAL caitnEsrojioKNT.l Auckland, January 7; : : t .The lamb season is now. in. full swing a$ . : . tho Auckland and Southdown works of'the. - Auckland Farmers' Freezing. Company, and ■ over 1000 lambs per day axe being frozen. Cattle for freezing purposes are still coining in-in small lots, and altogether tho works . V-: ' are kept; going at practically full capacity, Mr. Stringer,'secretary; to. the company,'icon; • fidently anticipates an increase of : ;from 2000, . to 3000 lambs on the export for last season, . The G isborne-'Waikato stock track, now . about to be opened for stock he. considers, lead to.'a great influx of breedico ewes in February, and March next, In fact; the influx of breeding ewes has'already commenced, and there is a very good;;prospect of tho supplies of:lambs for freezing increas- v....: ing very rapidly• within tlae next few •' ' and, after all, the; frozen lamb is the best tiade The-opening up of the big Hocks oi Nativo land in.Whakatane and Opotiki disj ; : ( tricts reported upon by tho Native Land Commission should have a good effect, and > there is also a very satisfactory trend of - settlement towards tho nortlrof 'Auckland,. and all this means moro land brought m for . 1 grazing, and consequently a bigger supply of sheep and lambs. , . .