CANADA TO LONDON

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 49, 27 February 1934, Page 9

CANADA TO LONDON

LIVE CATTLE SHIPMENT

(From "The Post's" Representative.) , LONDON, December 29.

A shipment of live cattlo from Canada wa3 landed at the Port of London on Christnias Day. This is the first timo for twenty. years that' live cattlo havo been imported direct to London, and has been made possible by the new lairages recently opened by Lord Ritchie, chairman of tho Port of London Authority.

Hitherto supplies of live cattlo have been brought into England by Birkenhead, tut tho opening of lairages at Tilbury, with facilities for importing cattle into the Port 'of London itself, is claimed to reduce freights and cheapen cost.

Of the 608 cattle embarked on the Nidarholm, 605 were landed, three having died on the voyage, which was prolonged owing to bad weather.

The arrival of the vessel kept a band of men at work on Christmas Day, drovers' being brought in .from Gravesend and Romford to assist in the removal of the ' animals from ship .to shore. . Butchers, who motored from London to the docks, had bought many of the beasts before they had been penned long, and later the first cattle train from the new lairages brought many animals to London.