Corriedales for Japan

Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 188, 11 August 1936, Page 10

Corriedales for Japan

A very choico consignment of 100 stud Corriedalo ewo hoggets, and four stud rams on the “Brisbane Maru” are being forwarded to Kobe, Japan. These sheep, selected and shipped through tho Stud Stock Department of tihe N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Company Ltd., were ' alb taken from leading’ Corriedalo studs. Tlio owe hoggots were bred by the following well known Canterbury flock masters: Mr Jas. Reid, “Riverslea,” Mr C. A. Campion, “Greenfields;’’’ Messrs D. and M. Sidcy, “Glenovis;” Mr O. T. Evans, “Taruna;” Mr H. S. Ingram, “Lennamore;” and Mr George Johns, “Culverdcn Downs.” Of the four stud rams, two were bred by Mr Jas. Reid, ono by Mr C. A. Campion and the fourth by Mr David Sidey. .One of Mr Reid’s rams, DJS, is a twin and his brother was sold for almost top price at tho Christchurch ram fair. Tho other three rams are all prize-winners having at some time taken prizes at tho following Canterbury shows: Hawarden, Tiinaru, Ellesmere, Ashburton, Malvern, and Methven. This is the second shipment of New Zealand brod siheep to Japan nmdo by tho N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Company Ltd. in conjunction with their Sydney office, since the beginning of July. The first consignment of 224 ewes and 10 stud rams, comprising Southdown, Romney and Ryeland sheep, went forward by tho “Sydney Maru” last month. Cabled advice has been received from Tokio that this shipment has arrived safely rnd that tho sheep have been sent to a farm at Beppu Kyushu for breeding. They will be subsequently forwarded, to farms in tho nortik-eas-tern part of Japan.