Home Of Ploughmen
The Rakaia Ploughing Match Association has for many years been a breeding ground for expert ploughmen. This has not been by chanee, because it is located in a notable mixed cropping and sheep farming district and in earlier days the plough was used more extensively than is the case today.
Writing of the early days of the district in a booklet produced on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Chertsey school in 1948, Kate Wilkinson said that before water came to the district, in the now famous county water race system, only a few Merinos could be carried,
but great quantities of wheat were grown in the district and the Chertsey railway station, including Dromore, ranked as third in Canterbury for the amount of wheat that was sent away. Rakaia, taking in the Methven branch line, ranked as second.
Three members of the committee of the Rakaia association have been New Zealand champion ploughmen—Messrs H. A. Magson, R. M. Kingsbury and E. J. Croy. And committee members who have ploughed in finals have included also Messrs J. R. Brown, J. Rawlinson, A. J. Breading and A. R. Johnston.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30803, 15 July 1965, Page 20
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193Home Of Ploughmen Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30803, 15 July 1965, Page 20
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