Eight special sheep trains have gone through from Taneatua to the Waikato this week —one on Monday, one on Tuesday, two on Wednesday and four yesterday. These trains carried between eighteen and twenty thousand sheep, which were driven from Poverty Bay to the railhead to the great inconvenience of motor traffic on each side of Opotiki. The service car time-tables were disorganised for the enormous mobs were only a mile or so apart.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume VL, Issue 3132, 9 February 1934, Page 8
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