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Landing Heifers
Former LTS “Rawhiti” in Pacific
THE former tank-landing-ship, “Ra
whiti,” recently carried 368 young Hereford and Aberdeen Angus heifers and 11 bulls from Auckland to Yandina, in the Russell Group, British Solomon Islands.
In Auckland, the cattle were taken in trucks through the bow doors into the in terior of the ship, where they were penned. In Yandina, the bow doors were opened, and the cattle walked onto the beach.
The “Rawhiti” then went to Talagi, in the Solomons, to pick up a cargo for Rabaul. From there she was to go to Wewak, in New Guinea, to load empty drums for Suva, thence to Truk (Caroline Islands) to pick up 3,000 tons of war assets for Sydney.