Vintage Machinery To Be On Display

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31321, 17 March 1967, Page 15

Vintage Machinery To Be On Display

A vintage machinery display will be, one of the feature attractions at the Hawarden Agricultural and Pastoral Association’s jubilee show this Saturday.

The Hawarden-Wai-kari Young Farmers’ Club has put a lot of work into organising the exhibition, machinery having been lion-owed from districts as far as Doyleston and Kirwee.

The star attraction will be a demonstration of an old threshing mill driven by a

traction engine. The old mill is owned by the Littles of Hui Hui. while the traction engine is being lent by G. W. Pearson and Sons of Rangiora.

To keep the setting as authentic as possible, the oats for threshing will be fed into the mill from a horse and dray, and the mill will be operated by some of the district’s oldtamers. What was once straight-out hard work from

dawn to dark, will on Saturday be a novelty. Another working demonstration will be given with a chaffcutter lent by the Evans’s of Tanina. What has surprised the organisers has been the amount of old machinery found in the district.

A dray and side-delivery has been obtained from the Quigleys of The Peaks, and the Waipara County Council’s old horse-drawn grader has also been resurrected.

One of the province’s earliest crawler tractors has been lent by the Forresters of Kirwee, while the wheel tractors

will include a line-up of International Harvester Company models. They will include a 10-20, a 15-30, an F-20 a W-30 and the latest 606. The W-30 will be used to drive the chaffcutter. Another interesting section of the show will be a display of antiques in the Scout Den. Organised by the district women’s institute, the display will include many exhibits of interest to the local residents. One of particular interest will be the Bible now used in the Horsley Downs church. This was originally the property of the Lance family who, as early settlers, built the first Horsley Downs church for their family services.

When the new Horsley Downs church was completed about four years ago, the Bible was given to the parish by the Church of England vicar at Lyttelton. Along with old photograph albums and items of historic interest, the display should prove well worth while.

Another attraction will be a demonstration of wool spinning by three Christchurch women.