STUD CATTLE.
HOLSTEIN-FRESIANS FROM AMERICA. (Per Press Association.! Wellington, September 14. What is said to be the largest consignment of stud cattle that has come, to hand to New Zealand from America was landed by the Aernngi at Wellington this morning from San Francisco. It comprised seventeen head of Hol-stein-Fresians, which were selected from herds ip Brockloy setts) and Wisconsin by Mr W. J. Lovelock, of Palmerston North, for the following New Zealand farmers:— .Messrs C. C. Hopping (Rongotea), J. Hart (Dannevirke), W. J. Remmant (Woodville), J. Liggins (Tokomaru) and A. J. Harris (Feat her ston). Half-a-dozen others are to follow to complete the order, and, like the first lot, they will lie imported through the agency of Messrs Dalgety and Co. The cattle were transhipped to the Duchess this morning and convoyed to the quarantine station on Somes Island. The animals are said to have been bred from the, highest strain in, the States from which they were selected. Their value is assessed at a high I'igure.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 26, 15 September 1911, Page 5
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168STUD CATTLE. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 26, 15 September 1911, Page 5
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