STUD SHEEP FOR N.Z.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19886, 14 March 1939, Page 15

STUD SHEEP FOR N.Z.

CHEVIOT SHEEP LANDED IMPORTS FROM CANADA The arrival of six Cheviot sheep bv the Tolten from Vancouver last week was an importation of more than usual interest to sheep breeders. Purchased in Canada and imported on behalf of Mr. Joseph Webb, Taihape, by the stud stock department of th*3 New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company. Limited, this shipment comprised six specially selected stud shearling ewes. Somewhat smaller than Romneys, Cheviots have clean heads, ears and legs, the bons* is quite fine although not from lack of constitution, body conformation is good, and the fieece is particularly white. Mr, Joseph Webb's Cheviot flock No. 7 in the New Zealand Sheer' Breeders' Association's flock book, was founded in 1935 by the purchase o r 30 ewes from the estate of the late 11. Alters, Linton, Manawatu. Sine 1936 importations have been made each year by the New Zealand Loan and ' Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, on behalf of Mr. Webb, both males and females being selected from the studs of the following well-known Canadian breeders. William Milne. A Ayre, Howard Murray, James Mcßane. R. G. Charter, and MacDonald College of Agriculture. The latest importations comprise ew-'.'-selected from the Hocks of Messrs. Howard Murray, James B. Turing and the College of Agriculture, an] are fully up to the high standard of previous purchases. It is interesting to note that the champion ewe am. ram at last year's Canadian Royal Far.were bred by Mr. R. G. Charter anMr. A. Ayre respectively.