CHAMPION PLOUGHMAN LEAVES FOR WORLD CONTEST.—Mr R. I. Heenan, who win be New Zealand’s representative at the world ploughing championships at Peebles, Ohio, on September 19 and 20, is bidden farewell in Wellington by the Minister of Agriculture, Mr K. J. Holyoake. On the right is Mr W. A. Thomson, who is accompanying Mr Heenan as manager and will be the Dominion’s nominee on the panel of judges at the championships. Beside him is Mr E. J. Melrose, New Zealand manager of the Atlantic Union Oil Company. Mr Heenan, a Southland engineer aged 21 years, will use in Ohio the 60-year-old plough with which he won the national title in July.
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Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28371, 2 September 1957, Page 6
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111CHAMPION PLOUGHMAN LEAVES FOR WORLD CONTEST.—Mr R. I. Heenan, who win be New Zealand’s representative at the world ploughing championships at Peebles, Ohio, on September 19 and 20, is bidden farewell in Wellington by the Minister of Agriculture, Mr K. J. Holyoake. On the right is Mr W. A. Thomson, who is accompanying Mr Heenan as manager and will be the Dominion’s nominee on the panel of judges at the championships. Beside him is Mr E. J. Melrose, New Zealand manager of the Atlantic Union Oil Company. Mr Heenan, a Southland engineer aged 21 years, will use in Ohio the 60-year-old plough with which he won the national title in July. Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28371, 2 September 1957, Page 6
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