Police advise that temporary fences are to be erected around the bush area where some of the 19 cattle which escaped a trailer unit on Blue Mountains Road remain.
The cattle are described as quite timid, are de-horned and do not appear to pose any danger to the public.
The fences will remain in place overnight until a local farmer can return in in the morning.
Work to cut the trailer free from the truck continues. The trailer will remain where it is off the road until tomorrow, when a crane can be brought in to remove it.
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Issued by Senior Sergeant Quentin Ward, Hutt Valley Police