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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 11, Issue 9 (December 1, 1936)
Sheep
Sheep.
As you will have seen, stud flocks in New Zealand of all classes of sheep, are numbered by the thousand. As a news item, I suppose the most dramatic happening in this sector of the breeding front was the creation here of a new breed, a new type of sheep, the far-famed Corriedale. Mr. James Little, grandfather of the present studmaster, perfected and stabilised this useful new animal, and New Zealand Corriedales now go to all pastoral countries in the world and bring the most amazing prices. In South America in particular, from Ecuador to Patagonia, “Hui Hui” and “Glenorchy” are household names.
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A shipment of 100 Corriedale stud ewes and rams being shipped from Wellington, New Zealand, to Japan.
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page 29
in a handsomely illustrated stud stock journal of Buenos Ayres, show-ring pictures of the “Lincoln-New Zealand type.” The wool is finer and a better general utility animal has evolved here than the original Lincoln. Almost the same observation applies to New Zealand's most generally used sheep, the Romney Marsh. The famous Wairongomai flock is the doyen of these snowy aristocrats in the North Island, and its blood is proclaimed by many breeders. It is believed that the influence of the original Merino flocks has produced the superior wool and mutton qualities of the New Zealand Romney. Southdowns, Ryelands, Merinos and the English and Border Leicester, the Shropshire and Suffolk all have their expert breeders and exponents. It is assured that, in the future, all these breeds also will improve in the same way..jpg)
Messrs. Robertson and Gould at the Trentham Yearling Sales.