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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 5, Issue 3 (July 1, 1930)

A Big Trucking Job

A Big Trucking Job.

To handle the trucking arrangements necessary for the despatching of 6,007 head of ewes and rams offered at the recent annual fair conducted by the Canterbury A. and P. Association was no light task, since most of the sheep were brought in small lots, and often a truck was required for a single sheep. “The Railway Department placed a special band of men on the job at the Addington Show Grounds, and they trucked the sheep so efficiently that more than one person expressed his appreciation of their work” (says the Christchurch “Sun”). All the sheep contained in the 180 trucks which came forward on the day preceding the sale were cleared by 6 a.m. the following morning. The sale started at 10.30 a.m., and re-trucking was commenced shortly afterwards, with the result that, by 7 p.m. the same day, 103 wagons had been loaded.

The Auctioneers' Association provided a band of men who brought the sheep up to the trucking stage, and there the Railway Department's men, who numbered five, took charge. Consignments of sheep went as far north as Auckland and as far south as the Bluff.

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