With 14.000 fat lambs arrvving at Wellington meat works this morning, the main killing season started today. Three special trains, contaitning 157 trucks of lambs arrived early this morning. • Ra'ilwaymen worked throughout the night to divide and reassemble the long trains. Each night this week, from all. parts of the Wellington province and Hawke's Bay, similar shipments will be coming south to the works. With collections from Hunterville, Marton, and other stations in the sheep-raising areas, the- big trains are assembled mainly at Palmerston North, for dispatch to "Wellington.
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Chronicle (Levin), 4 January 1949, Page 4
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89Page 4 Advertisements Column 3 Chronicle (Levin), 4 January 1949, Page 4
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