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FOUR HUNDRED SHEEP AIRBORNE were was received by CORSO in Wellington just as we were going to press that within one month of the 25 gift sheep for Rewi Alley arriving at their destination there were 400 more New Zealand sheep in Kansu province. This, we hasten to explain, does not mean that Rewi Alley and his Indusco shepherds have discovered a way to accelerate the reproductive cycle in their flocks but simply that, the first sheep flown into Shantan having stood the journey so well, air transport was used by the Chinese Government to move 400 New Zealand sheep purchased by UNRRA from Nanking into the North-west. This-the largest airborne movement of livestock ever undertaken in China-was begun towards the end of May and involved ten 2,400mile round trips out of Nanking every other day, 40 sheep being carried each trip. The operation was under the control of Robert Rousselot, of Missouri, the American pilot who transported the first mob of sheep into Kansu.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 417, 20 June 1947, Page 7
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167STOP PRESS New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 417, 20 June 1947, Page 7
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