VALUABLE CABLE
SHIPMENT FROM AMEBIC.* [Per Press Association] AUCKLAND, July 23. Ten bulls, and eleven heifers of the Aberdeen Angus breed, comprising the largest and most valuable shipment of a single breed of cattle ever landed in New Zealand, were brought from New York by the Federal steamer Cambridge, which berthed this morning. The only mortality was the death of a calf born the day after the cattle were shipped, and which was killed thre days later by the mother rolling on it. The cattle are in charge of Mr. Clinton Blake, foreman of Wayland Hopley Farms, lowa. All of the heifers have been purchased by Mr. J. R. Self, Papatoetoe. The bulls are to be sold at public auction after quarantine.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 174, 24 July 1936, Page 11
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122VALUABLE CABLE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 174, 24 July 1936, Page 11
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