Canterbury Provincial Gazette – 1865 – No. 1

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✨ Sheep Inspection Reports

RETURN OF SHEEP INSPECTED BY THE INSPECTORS OF SHEEP FOR THE PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY,
DURING THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER, 1864.

Date of Inspection.	Date of preceding Inspection.	Name of Station.	Where situate.	Name of Manager or Owner.	No. of Sheep on the Station.	No. of Sheep Inspected.	Result.	Date on which Sheep were last dressed.	REMARKS.
1864: Nov. 1	....	Farm	Kaiapoi Island	Wm. Coupe	50	50	Clean.
.. 4	....	Horsley Downs	Hurunui	J. D. Lance	33,000	2,000	Scabby.
.. 4	....	Government Yards	Ditto	J. H. Wigley (a)	....	420	Clean.	....	Wethers from the Amuri going to Christchurch.
.. 11	....	Birch-hill	Ashley	T. S. Mannering	3,600	400	Scabby.
.. 12	....	Glentire	Ditto	H. C. H. Knowles	1,200	1,200	Clean.
.. 16	....	Ditto	Ditto	T. S. Mannering	3,000	1,000	Clean.
.. 16	....	Wharf dale	Ditto	T. S. Mannering	3,000	1,000	Clean.

CENTRAL DISTRICT

Date of Inspection.	Date of preceding Inspection.	Name of Station.	Where situate.	Name of Manager or Owner.	No. of Sheep on the Station.	No. of Sheep Inspected.	Result.	Date on which Sheep were last dressed.	REMARKS.
Nov. 1	....	Isabel Lodge	Heathcote	T. M. Massall	2	2	Clean.
.. 2	....	Farm	Prebbleton	John Toswell	1,000	1,000	Clean.
.. 7	....	Ditto	Lincoln Road	Morley, Brothers	100	100	Doubtful.
.. 12	....	Lavington	Rakaia	W. Dunford, sen. (b)	8,000	7,000	Clean.	....	Certificate granted.
.. 16	....	Farm	Selwyn	Geo. Fitch	1,000	1,000	Clean.
.. 18	....	Ditto	Lake Ellesmere	R. Taylor	150	150	Scabby.
.. 18	....	Ditto	Ditto	Thomas Jenkins	400	400	Doubtful.		A scabby sheep had joined the flock about the 8th.
.. 19	....	Acton	Rakaia	Holmes and Co.	15,000	4,000	Doubtful.
.. 19	....	Ditto	Ditto	Ditto	....	6,000	Scabby.
.. 20	....	Bealey’s	Selwyn	J. T. Ford	....	2	....		To all appearance clean; branded WH.
.. 23	....	Hoon Hay	Peninsula	H. J. Cridland	800	400	Scabby.
.. 24	....	Cashmere	Ditto	J. C. Wilson	1,000	1,000	Clean.
.. 30	....	Ditto	Lake Ellesmere	Thomas Jenkins	400	400	Scabby.

SOUTHERN DISTRICT

Date of Inspection.	Date of preceding Inspection.	Name of Station.	Where situate.	Name of Manager or Owner.	No. of Sheep on the Station.	No. of Sheep Inspected.	Result.
Nov. 1 and 3	....	Raincliffe	Opihi	Purnell, Brothers	13,000	11,000	Clean.
.. 9	....	Shepherd’s Bush	Rangitata	D. M. Moorhouse	....	4,500	Clean.
.. 11	....	Cane Station	Tenaway	R. G. Rhodes	....	4,000	Clean.
.. 12	....	Burkes’ Pass	Burkes’ Pass	E. Maude	7,000	2,000	Clean.
.. 16 and 21	....	Arowhenua	Arowhenua	A. Hornbrook	13,000	13,000	Clean.
.. 24	....	Waitangi	Waitangi	J. Studholme (c)	....	3	Clean.
.. 26	....	Waimate	Waimate	Ditto	27,000	9,000	Clean.

Christchurch, 3rd December, 1864.

P. B. BOULTON,
Chief Inspector of Sheep.

(a) DECLARATION.—I, J. M. Ollivier, of Balmoral, Amuri, do hereby solemnly declare that the Sheep, 420 in number, marked L, now being depastured by me at the North Bank of the Hurunui, have not within three months last past had applied to any of them any reputed scab-destroying preparation, nor been mixed with any Sheep infected with scab or catarrh; and I make this solemn declaration, conscientiously believing the same to be true.

J. M. OLLIVIER.

Declared before me at Hastie’s, this 4th day of November, 1864.—H. RAMSAY SCARVELL, Inspector of Sheep.

(b) DECLARATION.—I, William Dunford, sen., of Lavington Station, do hereby solemnly declare that I have made a complete muster of all the Sheep in my charge, and that my Sheep, branded —, being 8,000 in number, now being at Lavington, have not within two months last past had applied to any of them any reputed scab-destroying preparation, nor within two months been mixed with any Sheep infected with scab or catarrh; and I make this solemn declaration, conscientiously believing the same to be true.

WILLIAM DUNFORD, senior.

Declared before me at Lavington, this 12th day of November, 1864.—P. B. BOULTON, Inspector of Sheep.

(c) DECLARATION.—I, John Studholme, of Waimate, do hereby solemnly declare that the Sheep, three in number, marked —, now being depastured by me at the Waitaki River, Province of Otago, have not within three months last past had applied to any of them any reputed scab-destroying preparation, nor within three months been mixed with any Sheep infected with scab or catarrh; and I make this solemn declaration, conscientiously believing the same to be true.

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