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SHEEP FROM ENGLAND [Per Press Association. — Copyright J WELLINGTON, This Day. The largest shipment of purebred sheep yet to reach the Dominion from England arrived by the • Monowai yesterday. The consignment comprises 19 Southdown rams and three Ryeland rams, all selected personally —by Mr G. Fawkes, of Killeymoon, Bulls, and consigned to Messrs Wright, Stephenson and Co. and Dalgety and Co. Seven of the Southdowns were bred by His Majesty the King in his Sandringham flock, Norfolk. Many of the rams were first prize winners at leading English shows, and represent the best prize-winning blood in England. According to English and Australian judges, the shipment is undoubtedly the finest that has ever reached the Southern Hemisphere,
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Northern Advocate, 8 January 1936, Page 7
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