Very few sheep are yet on the road from Gisborne and East Coast districts for the annual movement northward, and the opinion has been expressed that the total to be moved from these areas this year will reach only one-third of the numbers of the last few seasons. Last year Gisborne and East Coast districts supplied more than 250,000 sheep to the Waikato, practically all being breeding ewes, and the previous year the figure was estimated at 300,000. The main movement of sheep northward is expected to commence from this week. So far only a few of the early mobs have left their stations. Within another week shipments will also commence by the Richardson Line vessel Pakura. which is fitted up this year for the sheep traffic, and is scheduled to take her first shipment from Tolaga Bay on Northern Sheep Trade.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 January 1939, Page 9
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