DESPERATE SITUATION
40 000 SHEEP HELD UP 9
Due to the non-running of stock trains during last. week 4 this district became the holding paddock for 40 000 sheep brought to Taneatua from the East Coast and Gisborne. The mobs were brought by drovers from the different sales in the areas named and on arrival at Taneatua were to be trucked away. The fact that no trucks; were available did not stop the incessant flow of. sheep many drovers dropping their mobs at Taneatua and returning for more. The situation reached a crisis on Wednesday when it reached the reached the stage that if the sheep were not trucked away next year's breeding would be badly affected. Owing to the urgent, nature of the undertaking, special trains commenced running and the situation is now considerably easier.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 50, 20 February 1945, Page 5
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136DESPERATE SITUATION Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 50, 20 February 1945, Page 5
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