AUSTRALIA BUYS NEW ZEALAND STOCK
Australian sheep breeders are giving great attention to the fat lamb export trade. With this object m view good Southdown stock from New Zealand is being bought. Several purchases' have been made recently through the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd. Messrs D. K. McMillan, Victoria, and R. Champness, Western Australia, have bought from Ellis Bros.' Killymoon Stud, Bulls, 150 high-class one-shear Southdown ewes, in lamb to Ford Crusader an imported ram. Fifty oneshear Southdown ewes have been bought by a South Australian breeder from Mr. R. M. Perry, Masterton. Twelve Southdown ewes from Mr. A. E. Weld, Marlborough, and 40 Ryeland ewes some from Mr. M. S. Chambers, Havelock North, are to form the nucleus of two studs in Victoria. The S breeder is also buying 60 Southdown ram lambs to mate with his So sheep for the production of fat ambs Mr R. F. Cooper, Perth, Western Australia, has also come to New Zealand for ewes to found a Southdown stud Sear Albany, Western Australia.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 82, 7 April 1938, Page 12
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