SIMPLY MURDEROUS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3514, 28 June 1920, Page 3

SIMPLY MURDEROUS.

HANDLING OF PEDIGREE STOCK. General complaints were made at the recent meeting of the New Zealand Pig Breeders' Association at , Publicist on about the handling of stock on the railway. One member characterised it as ''simply murderous." A breeder said that he had shipped three sows at Halcombe, and when they had arrived at their destination at Shannon, one had throe logs broken and one had one leg broken. Both had to be destroyed' and the remaining pig's condition was serious. Another breeder said that he had lost a boar at Hastings through smo- < thering.' Railway officials had closed it up without ventilation, although he had allowed the pig adequate ventilation when lie had shipped it. All the .satisfaction he had got was in being told that he should have insured the animal. He had subsequently insured a consignment for £SOO, and they had arrived in good condition. The president said that ho had never had to complain of handling on the railway, and lie shipped pedigree stock largely. (He thought, however, that the trucks, especially cattle trucks, could be a great deal cleaner. It was decided thai, it be a remit to the Council of Agriculture that better facilities and conditions be enforced for handling stock.