NEW ZEALAND SHEEP FOR ENGLAND

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 47, 25 February 1939, Page 7

NEW ZEALAND SHEEP FOR ENGLAND

REQUEST OF LINCOLN BREEDER. IMPROVING QUALITY OF STOCK. [ Per Press Association.] WELLINGTON, Feb. 2. Stud sheep breeders in many parts of the world are turning to New Zealand for high quality stock. Already there is a considerable export trade, particularly in the Lincoln and Southdow.n breeds to Australia and the Argentine. Now, it is believed for the first time in New Zealand's pastoral history, a leading English sheep breeder is purchasing New Zealand sheep to improve the quality of his flock, a high compliment to the quality and reputation of the stock bred in the Dominion.

Mr. Ernest St. C. Haydon, recently appointed stud stock manager to Dalgety and Company, Limited, has received instructions from Mr. Clifford Nicholson, of Willinton Manor. Lincoln, to select and ship to England two of the best stud Lincoln rams obtainable in New Zealand. This means that New Zealand breeders will be supplying stud sheep to the very shire from which the breed originated. Mr. Nicholson is regarded as one of the most successful British Breeders. Possessor of an outstanding flock, he hopes with the infusion of the best New Zealand blood, to be able to produce an ideal type of sheep for the Argentine trade, where New Zealand sheep are beginning to seriously threaten what was formerly an English monopoly. The first attempt made by Mr. Haydon to comply with Mr. Nicholson’s instructions proved disastrous. as during January he selected what he regarded as a perfect ram from the flock of Mr. L. R. Wilton. Mastertoa. This ram was found dead in his paddock four days later, a severe loss to Mr. Wilton, at the same time depriving Mr. Nicholson of an outstanding ram. Mr. Haydon purchased from Sir William Perry 50 Lincoln ram hoggets for the Argentine and these went to London and remained 10 days on a barge in the Thames awaiting a vessel bound for the Argentine.