STOCK TO BE SHIPPED FROM THE BREAKWATER.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7961, 3 September 1887, Page 2

STOCK TO BE SHIPPED FROM THE BREAKWATER.

A special train, composed of thirteen trucks, containing 418 sheep and 42 head of cattle, arrived in town from Normanby at midnight on .Friday, in charge of Mr. Stone, of Okaiawa, to whom the animals also belong. The stock is now paddocked at Mr. Honeyfield's place, at Moturoa, waiting shipment by the- s.s. Oreti tomorrow for the Auckland market. Mr. Stone is now looked on ns a regular shipper from this port, as a fortnight ago to-day he sent 360 sheep to Auckland from the breakwater. He also sent a small lot of stock by the last northern trip of the s.s. Wanaka. This shipment how in paddock wiii, however, be the largest ever made i.\- n the breakwater, and will mean a fall o 'go for the Oreti.

The reason why Mr. Stone broizgnt the animals up last night was because the ordinary trains to-day could not have bid rcom in them for suoh a large number, and hence Mr. Stone had to engage a special train. He is very pleased with the shipping facilities at the port, not that they are better than those at Waitara, but on account of there being more certitude of getting a shipment away in time. He complained of the bad facilities afforded at Normanby for trucking stock, and stated that last night he had great difficulty with three bullocks on account of there being a space, down which the animals legs went, between the trucks with sliding doors, and the end of the race. There is no bother with the truck whose door is let down, but the other trucks are exceedingly inferior for stock purposes. It is said that another stook owner who was shipping animals at Normanby yesterday afternoon, for Waitara, also had difficulty through the same fault in the station arrangements.