SHEEP TRADE
FIGURES FOR LAST YEAR New Zealand's export trade in stud sheep has grown steadily and, during last year 14,758 head were exported of a valua of £64,852, an average price of £4 17s 6d. Australia was the leading purchaser in value at £33,624 for 6895 head, averaging nearly. £5. Japan, however, took the greatest number—74Bo head of a value of £23,024 and/averaging £3 2s. Urugary took 268, valued at £13,415; Argentina 146 head, valued, at £4340; Falkland Islands, 73 head, valued at £1910; South Africa, 125 head, valued £1653; Peru, 10 head, valued at £700; United States, 3 head, valued at £362; Kenya, 4 head valued at £132. The apparently low values of export sheep, states Messrs Wright* Stephenson and Co., are explained by the fact that many were flock rams and a good proportion ewes. Furthermore, shipping costs in some instances almost double their cost to those upon whose farms they are finally to run. Again, of course, values for importedHfeheep are swollen conversely by epjiiisive shipping and quarantine costs to bring into the Dominion.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 186, 15 July 1940, Page 4
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178SHEEP TRADE Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 186, 15 July 1940, Page 4
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