AN INTERESTING FEAT

Hutt News, Volume 2, Issue 25, 14 November 1929, Page 3

AN INTERESTING FEAT

v The economic po.ssjbiiilics .of motor tr-,iu.--["»it for the;' stuck- was recently .■li'jtiOMstr.'tted in the carriage of fat eat-tlc'-by. motor truck in West Australia over a distance'of MOU miles to the railhead and then 600 miles by rail to market dlT' ia three days nnd without any depredation in "condition the. cattle topping-, the -"market 'at" the Perth sale--yards.-.and averaging' ■ £1.7-4s a head. This is the result 'of an exi>eriment Which was recently ma.de in West Australia. TUe Boy Bill- Pastoral Co., in which Mr F. B. 'S. Falkiner, of New South. Wales has'an interest, conceived the idea of using the mobility of the motor truck to solve the problem of over landing cattle on and inhospitable stages.. In this -instance,.'-.the stock, if . tr jivoll ed on the hoof, would not only have lost condition but would have cost

more : for droving and feeding, than their conveyance .by-.;.-inj>^oi:,-./ 9p..' tivo;, motor trucks, each with a trailer, were procured. Qn^to tlieae were fttted specially constructed bodies each capable of acconiniodating eight head of cattle. Thus 16 bullocks could W jbvaasporfce^l. at each loading. The initial'trip resulted most satisfactorily, the animals "being motored 354 miles from the station to the railhead iv H8 'hours, /arriving fresh and

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