RAILWAYS KEPT BUSY
SHEEP AM> SLAG TKAINS. There were about sixty pasengers from Stratford by the special train yesterday morning for the Taranaki Jockey Club's races. A special train arrived at 1 Stratford on Wednesday afternoon with 41 trucks of sheep from the Farmers' Co-op's sheep fair at Kohuratahi, and owing to excellent railway oi> ganisation buyers as far south as Waverley were able to have their sheep on their farms within 24 hours of buying them at Kohuratahi. A further fourteen trucks of sheep are expected to arrive from the East to-day and thirty trucks on Monday next. For the week the department 1 will handle 125 trucks of sheep from the East. Four special trains arrived at Stratford on Wednesday frarn New Plymouth with slag. Somo of this is for the Stratford district and the rest is distributed from here to other stations.
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Stratford Evening Post, Issue 32, 8 February 1929, Page 3
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