SHEEP IN THE DESERT

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17952, 2 December 1932, Page 5

SHEEP IN THE DESERT

W. AUSTRALIAN FLOCKS CAMELS DRAWING WOOL The Western Australian goldfields country, which a felv years ago was regarded as desert, is now carrying nearly 3,0)0,000 sheep of the best strains. The stations are models of modern development. Nearly 6000 bales of wool have been railed from the goldfields stations this season, and it is expected that at least another 1000 bales will be added. Trucks, with trailers piled, high with wool, are now a common sight in Ivalgoorlie, but lately there has been a tendency to revert to more old-fashioned methods of bringing the clip to the rail-head. The Pinjin station, Edjudina, recently had a large wagon specially built costing more than £2OO, on which the wool is brought in by a team of camels. On the return trips the wagon takes chaff. The teamster in charge of the camels must give the stationmaster 24 hours’ notice before bringing his charges into the railway yard, for the horses, unless speeiallv trained, take fright at the camels. When the wagon first arrived there was pandemonium ambng the horses at the goods shed.