STUD SOUTHDOWNS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 January 1939, Page 3

STUD SOUTHDOWNS

CONSIGNMENT FOR SYDNEY. FROM CARTERTON STUD. Four hundred stud Southdown ewes and lambs, New Zealand bred, were sent on the Wanganella yesterday from Wellington to Sydney, to improve the standard of the flocks of New South Wales. The liner’s forward hold was converted to a sheep-shed for the trip. The sheep were from the Carrington stud of Mr W. Howard Booth, Carterton, who was on the wharf to see them oil’. They-were the main portion of his entire flock of 457, sold through the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Ltd., to Mr W. J. McSwceney, The Rivers Station, New South Wales. The remainder will be shipped by the Awatea next week. Their departure brings to a close the history of a stud flock held in high repute among the Southdown breeders of the Dominion for its high quality. It was founded 30 years ago by.the purchase of 100 ewes and a ram, and was one of the oldest Southdown flocks in New Zealand.

The sheep were brought down by rail from Carterton. arriving at Wellington early yesterday morning. They were taken by lorry to the wharf, and there driven into a light pen holding about 15, in which they were swung aboard the liner by derrick. Lowered into the fore hold, they were drafted into pens built round the sides of the hold. They appeared to settle down immediately’, munching hay placidly. Dry feed, of course, will be their fare for the next few days.