DESPATCH OF SHEEP.
BUSINESS OF REMOVING EWES. Mr E. G. C'roudis. stationraaster at Feiidinr. informed a "standard' 1 representative this morninr: that orders for trucks for sheep front the ewe fair yesterday so far total 106. compared with 96 last year. Each, true:-: holds about s•> sheep, and furth-r orders for the despatch of sheep or. Monday are coin inn i:s steadily. It is expected that the crand total of trucks used for the despatch of sheep will exceed last year's r~::re of 144. Ir. 1967, IDS trucks were ordered, while in 393 d the number was 130. The demand for trucks comes from buyers who are shifting their sheep lour distance*, and the bulk of the yarding is removed by lorries and drovers. Approximately orequarter of the total she---;-, yarded are handled by the Railway Department.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 69, 18 February 1939, Page 4
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