BEST FARM CONTEST.
I WINNER ANNOUNCED. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) CHRIST CHURCH, this day. The 40(1-acre farm of Mr. Joseph Brooks, of Irwell, which has earned a gross total of £12.500 in the past three years, won the Job Osborne award for the beet-managed farm in the Ellesmere district. The Hon. Sir R. Heaton Rhodes, who presented the prize®, said the contest* would do much to improve farming in the district. Mr. J. C. Chamberlain (Ellesmere) was second, and Mr. A. C. Greenwood (Southbridge) was third, Dr. I. W. Weston, who judged the competition with Messrs. Colin Mcintosh and J. W. Calder, said every acre of Mr. Brooks' farm was producing and every branch was paying. It was a perfect example of the* best sort of mixed property.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 301, 21 December 1939, Page 4
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