SHEEP TO TRAVEL BY SEA
Many thousands of sheep, says the “New Zealand Herald,” are to be transferred from East Coast bays to the Bay of Plenty ami Auckland during the next three months. The Richardson Line motor vessel Pakura will be engaged until the end of March in carrying 600,000 sheep from East Coast ba(ys to Tauranga and Auckland. More sheep will be shipped by other vessels. The Pakura was recently converted at Lyttelton from a steamer to a motor vessel. She is now fitted with an 850 horse-power Polar Atlas motor engine, which will give her a speed of 12 knots. During the past two days she has been at Auckland having ’tween decks fitted in the hold for the carriage of sheep below decks. She is the third of the company’s vessels to be converted from steam to motor power, the other ships being the Awahau and Pukeko.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 92, 12 January 1935, Page 19
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151SHEEP TO TRAVEL BY SEA Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 92, 12 January 1935, Page 19
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