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Taranaki Daily News, 13 January 1932, Page 6

If the performance of a retriever dog at Corsair Bay on Saturday can be taken as any criterion, says the Christchurch Times, canine swimmers can take their < - place as the equal of their human masters. In a 400 yards swimming race a retriever dog left the starting point with the second man, and kept pace with the contestants. When the race was concluded the dog was given a liberal round of applause by the spectators.

The present-day method of moving sheep per medium of motor lorry is in every way beneficial to the animals as well as advantageous to the sheep farmer. A Daily News’ representative recently saw an excellent example illustrating this fact on a sheep farm in the East 'Stratford district, inland from Ngaere. At seven o’clock in the morning the farmer ’phoned the Waitara Freezing 'Works that he had a line of lambs to go forward. By 11 o'clock some 900 ewes and lambs had been mustered and 300 prime lambs drafted. Im the meantime two of the Freezing Works lorries, each with a trailer, had arrived at the farm. In an hour’s time the lambs had all been comfortably, loaded and were going to the a journey of about 40 miles, which would not take more than two hours. The lambs arrived in first-class condition, without mishap or injury. By the old method of droving the sheep by road such a journey would take the best part of a week to accomplish, and the lambs would have deteriorated in weight at least a pound for each day s travel, besides being bruised and a certain number injured. The lorry and trailer system of carriage has solved a problem for sheep-farmers, as all classes of sheep are now conveyed with promptitude over any distance, without injury and with the minimum of expense and trouble. The New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board draws attention in the advertising columns to the fact that now is the time to order presents of prime New Zealand lamb for delivery in Britain at Easter time. Under this well known scheme anyone can have a single carcase of lamb delivered at any time to any address in the United Kingdom for th® sum of 24s delivered.