WAIRARAPA SHEEP.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 203, 28 July 1937, Page 4

WAIRARAPA SHEEP.

DISPATCH TO ARGENTINA. Following on his recent successes in the South American sheep markets, the well-known Masterton sheep hreeder, Mr Will. Rayner, is again forwarding a number of high-class sheep to the Argentine and Uruguay for sale by publio auction. These sheep, together with a number of stud Lincoln rams being consigned by Mr L. R. Wilton, “Rangilumau,” Masterton. arc being shipped from Wellington per the Huntingdon through the stud stock department' of the N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd. The sheep being forwarded by Mr Wilton are all two-shear shop, low get and carrying quality fleeces of typical Lincoln wool. They are being shipped to Buenos Aires and should meet with a ready demand at the sales to be held there in August next. Mr William Rayner’s consignment this year includes Lincoln. Romney Marsh, and Corriedale sheep and a number of each breed are being forwarded to Montevideo as well as Buenos Aires. This well-known breeder has an established reputation in the Argentine as a stud master, and his sheep always command a ready sale. The stud Romney Mfirsh rani hogget selected and purchased by the company’s experts from Mr J. G. Alexander, of Maxwell, at a record price on behalf of one of the foremost breeders in Uruguay is also being shipped with this consignment, and also a stud Corriedale ram hogget bred by the Australian and New Zealand Land Company, Mocraki Estate, Hampden, Otago, and destined for the Argentine.