SHEEP TRANSPORT
635 MILES BY LORRY.
Twenty-three sheep brought from Melbourne to Sydney by motor-lorry to demonstrate a method of transport evolved by Sir Edward Mitchell, and subsequently slaughtered at the Home-bush Bay abattoirs, yielded carcasses of excellent trade mutton.
Reporting on the consignment, the chairman of the Meat Industry Board (Mr Cramsie) said that the slaughtered weights ranged from 491 b to 701 b., and averaged 5741 b. The sheep appeared to have carried satisfactorily and showed very few bruises. The principal marks on the carcasses were found about the top of the neck, where odd sheep appeared to have been bruised slightly by the canvas contrivances used to hold them down in the lorry. There was only one fevered carcass, and that was affected only to a slight degree. Generally the carcasses were in excellent condition.
After arrival at the showground the sheep were unloaded and were then spelled for 60 hours before being killed. They were from Sir Edward Mitchell’s property in Victoria, and had travelled 635 miles in 52 hours with only one stop for food and water.
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Southland Times, Issue 21090, 23 May 1930, Page 8
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182SHEEP TRANSPORT Southland Times, Issue 21090, 23 May 1930, Page 8
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