Was A Big
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Much Wool But—
Urnout For The
Oolshed Hop
LAE, Feb. 15. pecial planes ran from Lae to idugl for the all-night dance on ruary 8 to celebrate the opening Sondugl’s new woolshed. r Edward Hallstrom, who origin set up the Nondugl establish it (it is still administered as i’rust, but the P-NG Adminis ion pays expenses) flew up from ney for the occasion and four 5 later flew down again, le dance had to be an all-night ir because there is no accommo on there. There was plenty of rmation in Lae about the dance it absolutely none about the ip, whose fleeces are going to fill woolshed. > one in Lae any longer knows fling about the Nondugl sheep, /hether they are doing well, or ther they are all dead. And no seems to care. Rightly or igly—and probably wrongly— p-growing in the Highlands is regarded seriously in Lae. >und here, they are telling the of the £5OO cow-bails, apears that at Nondugl, cows ’t brought in to be milked—the i are taken out to the cows. To le job properly it was considered a really slap-up job was re id, so plans for the bails were from overseas, and laboriously ated here in Lae, out of welded pipe. They have a roof and -in feed-bins and are conserv ily estimated to have cost (with reight) £5OO. They are towed to the cows behind a tractor, iaybe a jeep.— JT.
Port Moresby, Feb. 10.
• Edward Hallstrom said here his new woolshed, which re ;s sheds made of native irials, was even better than the ralian-type sheds. It was built eel on concrete piers, uipment for handling the sheep equal to the best in Australia.
Edward said the natives, shear vith machines, were doing re :ably well—it was nothing for a r e to shear 80 or 90 sheep in a ere were about 1,000 sheep and al hundred cattle on the station, nd. In about six weeks, about lead of the best Romney Marsh which could be obtained in :alia would be brought up, and would be followed by another nent a little later, lis is the beginning of a great >try in the Territory—l am flced of that,” he said. (Over)
Sheep from Nondugl were already ing out to stations in other areas, ne of which had been started by ssions. >ir Edward added that the tential for cattle was also very >at indeed, and “the day will ne when you will have your New inea cattle kings.”