CATTLE DRIVING IN NEW ZEALAND.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 8 September 1923, Page 4

CATTLE DRIVING IN NEW ZEALAND.

(Scottish Farmer.) ; ! A notable drive of a mob of cattle has I been made from the Marlborough Sounds to Banks Peninsula. The mob ! comprised cattle two years old and ) upwards from Mr E. Hay's Titirangi 1 station in the Sounds to Pigeon Bay. •Mr Hay's station hands took out the cattle a week's journey to Okaramaro, near Havelock, in Pelorus Sound, and from the latter point Messrs Robertson ( and Kirkwood, well-known drovers, I brought them on a fiv-e week's trelc to [Pigeon Bay. The route was through j theWairau Gorge, Tarndale estate, over j the Island Saddle into the Clarence, I and over Jollies Pass to Hanmer, and on to Pigeon Bay. The drovers started j out with 233 head, and after the long | trip landed 230 head at Pigeon Bay in j splendid order, and with very little sign jof the long travel or knocking about. i In past years Mr Hay shipped the cattle { from Titirangi estate wharf to Pigeon (Bay, but this year he decided to bring j them by road as described above; -