LORRY STRIKES MOB OF SHEEP
HEAVY DEATH ROLL ON ROAD NEAR WYNDHAM
Fourteen sheep and a dog were killed, and several sheep were injured at the foot of Youngs Hill, near Wyndham, on Wednesday . evening when a lorry carrying sheep to the Mataura freezing works crashed into a big mob which •was being driven by Mr A. Rankin from Mokoreta to Jefferies Brothers’ farm at Morton Mains. The lorry was coming down the hill and the driver evidently failed to . see the sheep in time, .as he crashed into the mob, causing the sheep to plunge in all directions. It is understood that some of the injured sheep have since died. Little damage was done to the lorry. '
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Southland Times, Issue 23840, 10 June 1939, Page 6
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