Valuable Bull From Jersey Island For Well-known Levin Stud
- Specially selected by the well-known Jersey Isiand authority, Mr. Francis Le Boutillier, a rising yearling bull, Oxford Lad of Highfield, arrived at Wellington' on Monday, _ for Messrs. H. J. Lancaster and Son, Levin, whose "Heatherlea atud is one of the foremost. among the great Jersey breeding'^ establishments of the Southern Hemisp'here.
An inspection on a.rrival showed it to be of beautiful type and quality, and of the breed character distinctive to the best isiand cattie. It has now gone into quarantine on Somes -Isiand. This young bull is very strong in Majesty blood and was chosen to strengthen this strain, which has already given the "Heatherlea" stud such -'remarkable success. His dam is a silver medal daughter of Evergood's Rush's Grandson (Imp.) and comes from a .highly distin-
guished prize-winning family. Another importation at ihe same time is a four-vear-old cow and her nine-months-oM bull calf for Dr. G.. Wa-lker's "Beaulieu" stud at Whangarei. The importations were made through the Farmers' Cooperative Auctioneering Co., Ltd., Hamilton. The cattie are going into herds from which the benefit of their great ancestral quafities will be distributed throughcut the Domin,ion.
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Chronicle (Levin), 12 May 1949, Page 4
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