BORN AT SEA

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 21 November 1927, Page 8

BORN AT SEA

LITTER OF PIGS.

SHIPMENT FROM CANADA

“One little pig went to market, and one little pig stayed at home/’ L'his is how the nursery rhyme runs, in this cases six large pigs set out on a long sea voyage (states the Auckland “Star”). There were three from Manitoba, all of the Yorkshire breed pedigree animals chosen bv Mr B, C. Hicks, husbandman for the Canadian Experimental Karins, the consignee being Mr C. W. Anderson, a member of the Auckland A. and P. Association. Likewise they are the first pigs to be exported from Canada to New Zealand during the past eleven years, and arrived by the Union steamer Waitemata from Vancouver on Friday afternoon. A wireless message came to hand on Friday to say that when in the vicinity of Suva one of the sows had a litter, and that “piggy’’ junior was faring well, evidently objects of delight and interest to the officers and crew.

On arrival the pigs are to undergo a period of quarantine at Motuihi Island, forty days and forty nights, although in this case it will not be n wilderness, and the Yorkshire immigrants will have the. pleasure of rooting in fertile New Zealand soil, and contemplating on the pleasure it brings after rubbing noses with the steel decks of the freighter.