MOBS ON THE ROAD
THE EAST COAST SHEEP TREK '
ELEVEN IN ONE DAY
A motorist endeavouring to make! Opotiki in record time last Tuesday, states that he was hampered every few miles by the large mobs of sheep encountered on the road. In the forty miles between that .town and Whakatane he met no less than eleven mobs, averaging about 3000 head. His travelling time was just double the average—about two hours.
The annual trek from the East Coast has not set in in earnest and almost any day of the week travellers using the main ■: Coast Road meet with a similar The sheep come in the the Gisborne district and -to one drover he is talcing 8 weelts to bring his mob from there, to Te Puke. Resting paddocks are found near Whakatane, and at the present time the main fields of the Ohope Maori Land Scheme, near the Mokorua golf course are white with thousands of sheep spelling after the hard journey from Opotiki. The main slock route, via the Maraetotara Gorge is used by the drovers, the sheep taking the Wai-< nui back-road and avoiding the narrow Waimana gorge road. Travellers from Ohope are often heldl up — for half an hour by the sheep mobs entering from the old access road , and occupying the main highway . till the turn-o!I at the golf course. The period of sheep trekking .inland is expected to last anothermonth. \
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 265, 31 January 1941, Page 5
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237MOBS ON THE ROAD Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 265, 31 January 1941, Page 5
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