["Kwinana's Stock Shipment", The West Australian, Wednesday 23 April 1913, page 7]
KWINANA'S STOCK SHIPMENT.
TROUBLE AT ADELAIDE.
Adelaide, April 22. The Western Australian Government, as the owners of the steamship Kwinana, found itself to-day in conflict with the South Australian regulations for the carriage of animals by ship. The Kwinana, which is taking a large number of stock to Western Australia, had about 1,000 sheep on her bridge deck unpenned. The Marine Board regulations relating to the carriage of animals, which came into operation in 1897, do not permit sheep to be conveyed except in properly equipped pens, and the necessary orders for compliance with the bylaws were gven to the master.
Some objection was raised that the local regulations were much more stringent than those operating in Western Australia, but as private steamship owners have been compelled to follow the South Australian by-laws in this respect, the Marine Board officials had no recourse but to administer the regulations in their entirety. The agents of the Kwinana had, therefore, to engage carpenters to erect the required pens, and the departure of the vessel for Western Australia was slightly delayed. When the Kwinana leaves Port Adelaide for Fremantle to-morrow morning, she will have a full load of cattle, sheep, and horses. The local consignment consists of between 3,000 and 4,000 sheep, 60 horses, 100 head of cattle, about 20 donkeys, and between 500 and 600 rams, all of which are going to private consignees in Western Australia.
