FREIGHT ON SHEEP.

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 206, 28 April 1905, Page 2

FREIGHT ON SHEEP.

(to THS MUTOS.) Sib, —Some jump to oonclusicrc without satisfying themselves, and I find that to be the case in Mr Lang* ley's description of tbe way certain sheep were handled recently on the South Beach. The ser.ar informs me tbat there was a cjcveuient pen made -of hurdles, and that a - number of natives turned loose on them to catch and carry to the punts . . . “ and some interesting wrestling took place on the ca .h-as catch-can style,’’ is without foundation. Thera ware four men n the pens to carefelly lift tbe sheep into ths punt (two to each sheep). Mr Lan .ley could not have been there and rea. y knows nothing about how the sheep were shipped. I'm informed by tbe sel'et that Mr West (the buyer), who was present, raised no guee-ion about the way the sheep were bandied on the beach. I will not call Mr Langley's statement an'“ inaccuracy,” but a want of knowledge of what took place when the cheep were shipped.—Yours, etc., W. A. MASON.