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Image Not Available for Report on SS FEDERAL cattle venture from Gladstone to Melbourne
Report on SS FEDERAL cattle venture from Gladstone to Melbourne
Image Not Available for Report on SS FEDERAL cattle venture from Gladstone to Melbourne

Report on SS FEDERAL cattle venture from Gladstone to Melbourne

Date24 October 1892
Object numberANMS0780[067]
NameReport
ClassificationsEphemera
Credit LineANMM Collection McIlwraith McEacharn Limited
Terms
    DescriptionHandwritten report addressed to the chairman and directors, McIlwraith, McEacharn & Co Ltd, Melbourne by F W Vasey, begins 'I beg to report upon the results of the second voyage of your SS FEDERAL with a shipment of fat cattle from Gladstone to Melbourne' and concludes '...The cattle drank freely but would not eat the lucerne hay provided for them, and I am informed by the master that they walked easily & quietly into all parts of the holds.'