SANDON STOCK TRAIN.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1370, 6 March 1915, Page 2

SANDON STOCK TRAIN.

The Sand on and Rongotea districts are large exporters of fat stock, and in the past the bulk ot this stock has always been driven to Feilding and Greatford for trucking to freezing works. On several occasions the Manawatu County Council have endeavoured to get ■at stock trucked via SandonFoxtou tramway, but without success until just recently, when word was received from the Gear Meat Company that they were prepared to give the proposal a trial. Trucking yards have been erected at Saudou and Rongotea, and the first consignment of fat iambs were forwarded last week. Word has now been received by lie buyer for the Meat Company that the line arrived a: the works in lip-lop order. The lambs left Sanson on Wednesday at 11.45 a.m., arrived at the works the same night, and were killed next day. This arrangement will be a boon to farmers in the locality, as it means their stock will be saved a long journey along dusty roads, and also, as is sometimes the case, along, wait in an accommodation paddock at the end of their journey waiting for trucks. Under the present arrangement the stock can remain on the farm until the trucks arrive at the trucking station, and thus have every opportunity of reaching the works in the pink of condition.