SHEEP FOR CHINA
Long Voyage From New Zealand After a trip which war conditions extended to more than two years, a consignment of 150 stud sheep from New Zealand recently arrived in north-west China, according to reports received indirectly. By the time of their arrival they had been augmented by lambs' born on. the way. The sheep have been imported l by the North-West China Development Company with the object 40f improving flocks. The initiative in obtaining them was taken by the New Zealander. Mr. Rewi Alley, famous for his work in forming the decentralized industrial co-operative companies in central and western China.
The sheep, 50 rams and 166 ewes. Corriedale, Merino, Bcmney and Lincoln breeds, were shipped by Wright, Stephnsou and Co., Ltd., in December, 1941. They were to go via Rangoon, but. during the voyage across the Indian Ocean the Burma Road’ was closed, and eventually they went by train to Darjeeling and then through the mountains into Tibet.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 224, 19 June 1944, Page 4
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161SHEEP FOR CHINA Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 224, 19 June 1944, Page 4
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