SHIPMENT OF STUD CATTLE

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 44, 21 January 1936, Page 5

SHIPMENT OF STUD CATTLE

SHORTHORNS AND ABERDEEN ANGUS FOR AUSTRALIA. Tho motor vessel Waiwera, which arm ed in Sydney the other day, brought i consignment of valuable stud beef cattle This included seven Shorthorn hulls, twr Shorthorn heifers, and an Aberdeen Align bull consigned to (be Commonwealth Woe and Produce (.'o., Ltd., and eight Aberdee; Angus bulk which will be used bv tu: < Scottish Australian Company to iinprov*. the quality of its herds. Five of fhe Shorthorns were bought i 1 Northern Ireland. Three of them wen bred there, and the other'tivo arc Scottish bred from Ulster herds. Tho Shorthorn* have been especially selected with a yiov. to advertising the breed in Australia. The,', are very fashionably bred, and many oi them have high reputations trained in northern hemisphere ehowrinf.s. llioy have arrived in very good order. The . bulls include Glcnannc Dazzler. which, among many other honours; wot the 100-guinea Victory Challenge Cup at the Royal Ulster Show last Altly. Aldit March On (sired by the Perth 1934 chain pion, sold at 700 guineas to the Argentine) Millhills Peer (winner, of. first prize a the Royal Ulster Show). Larbert Rotu Marshal, Rosewood--Ensign, Rosewood Bay endo, and Lothian Challenger. The two heifers are Golden Gleam, t dark red, by Glastullich Barnono, sold fo. 750 guineas, for export to Australia, tun Glastullich ' Ely, bred in the same herd out of a dam by Naomoor Jasper. Tho Aberdeen Angus bull is Boxer o' Cults, shipped on behalf of Mr Hubert S. Docker, of Bontharambo, Wnngaratta, Victoria. This three-year-old gained tin championship at. the Angus Show, and has been head sire in Mr \\ byte's Hayslon herd for the past 18 months.