Ship-Load Of Farm Stock

Steamer Carries 500 Animals to New Guinea

WHEN the SS “River Fitzroy” sailed out of Sydney for Papua-New Guinea on May 12 she looked like a floating farmyard, or domestic zoo.

She carried, for the Australian Depart ment of External Territories, for distribu tion to plantations, mission stations and experimental stations under the control of the Territories’ Department of Agricul ture, no less than 500 animals —horses, cattle, sheep, pigs, mules, goats, turkeys, geese, and domestic hens. The horses, cattle, and larger animals were carried in specially constructed stalls built along the steamer’s decks; and a special staff, in structed by the Agriculture Department, went along with them.