STOCK DISPATCHED FOR HOME

Southland Times, Issue 24000, 15 December 1939, Page 13

STOCK DISPATCHED FOR HOME

MANY TRAINS LEAVE CITY AFTER SHOW The dismantling of the big show and return of the stock exhibits to their homes involves almost as much preparation as the arrangements for the show itself. Soon after the grand parade yesterday afternoon, stock owners began to assemble their stock for the homeward journey and before midnight all the stock entries had been sent away by 10 trains and by motor-lorries. The dispatch of the stock involved extensive organization by the Railway Department and the work proceeded smoothly so that within six hours the last train load had left the siding which had been a scene of intense activity.

Stock from Canterbury and the North Island left by a train for Lyttelton at 9.35 o’clock and those for Otago at 10.25. Main line stock from within Eastern Southland and South Otago and that from the Waimea Plains left at 5.30 o’clock and consignments for the Wyndham branch line at 5.55. Other departures were as follows:—lntermediate stations between Invercargill and Gore, 7.45; Winton and Hedgehope lines, 6.30; Lumsden district, 7.25; Tuatapere, 5.55; Wairio, ' 6.15; Tokanui, 5.30.