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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 August 1954Vol. XXV, No. 1

A Mixed Bag for NG

p. 153 · Read in the full issue

GEESE, draught horses, sows and goats, as well as blue-blood cattle, have been included among recent imports of livestock into New Guinea.

Tattersall’s Bloodstock Sales, of Sydney, advise that they sent 14 Shorthorn bulls, 2 Polled Hereford bulls, 108 heifers and 4 regist ered Jersey heifers to the NG De partment of Agriculture, Stock and Fisheries. The cattle arrived at Lae by the Nankin on July 21.

Previously, the company sent some

geese and fodder to Mr. H. A Aiken’s Vaiviri Estate. Port Moresby: and draught horses and harness stud sows and a boar, and ganders and Emden geese to Mr. Graham Kingsford-Smith, of Goana.