N.Z.'S CANARIES

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 175, 3 November 1941, Page 8

N.Z.'S CANARIES

BRITAIN'S LIVESTOCK EXPORTS

Six pairs of canaries for New Zealand are an unusual item in the livestock shipped from Britain during the first half of the year. Crested canaries are becoming more popular and a great demand for them is expected when war restrictions disappear. Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Kenya and Uruguay received bulls, cows, rams and ewes. The cattle shipped present a good •cross-section of Brit* ish pedigree stock. In the beefproducing class there were eight Aberdeen Angus bulls, six for Argentina and two for Canada;, a Devon bull for Brazil; and four Hereford bulls, three for Uruguay and the other for Argentina. Dairy cattle were represented by an Ayrshire bull for Kenya, while the world's greatest dual-purpose breed, the Shorthorn, famous alike for its milking as its beef producing qualities, was responsible for 81 of the 95 cattle shipped. No fewer than 69 Shorthorn bulls were sent to Argentina and one to Canada. All the cows exported in the halfiyear were Shorthorns, ten going to Canada and one to Kenya. All the 45 sheep shipped abroad were of the Down type. Six Southdown rams and 18 ewes went to Canada, which also tcok two Hampshire Down rams and eight ewes, as "well as nine Suffolk rams. To Chile were shipped two Hampshire Down rams. Poultry and pheasants were sent to most accessible quarters of the | world.