SHEEP FOR CHINA
LONG VOYAGE FROM DOMINION. WELLINGTON, June 19. After a trip which war conditions extended to more than two years, a consignment of 150 stud sheep from New Zealand recently arrived in NorthWest China, according, to reports received indirectly- By the time of their arrival they had been augmented . by lambs born on the way.
The sheep have been imported by the North-West China Development Company with the object of improving flocks. The initiative in obtaining them was taken by the New Zealander, Mr Rewi Alley, famous for his work in forming the decentralised industrial co-operative companies in central and western China.
The sheep, 50 rams and 100 ewes, Cbrriedale. Merino, Romney, and Lin'coln breeds were shipped in December, 1941. They were to go via Rangoon, hut during the voyage across the Indian Ocean the Burma Road was closed, and eventually they went by train to Darjeeling and then through the mountains into Tibet.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXIV, Issue 171, 19 June 1944, Page 4
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