PROBLEMS RAISED

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31363, 8 May 1967, Page 7

PROBLEMS RAISED

Dominion Venue The decision to hold the fourteenth World Ploughing Contest in New Zealand had been accompanied by difficulties more serious than had at first been thought, the president of the organisation, Mr W. Feuerlein, of West Germany, said at Lincoln College on Saturday. The organisation had relied on sponsors to enable ploughmen to travel to world contests, but after the decision taken in 1964 to come to New Zealand the sponsorship of nearly all of the ploughmen had been lost. In some countries funds had had to be collected and he had done this in his country so that two ploughmen and a team manager could be sent. Some ploughmen and team managers had had to contribute towards the cost of their travel. But once they had decided to come to New Zealand it was a matter of honour that they should do so.

These difficulties had developed a greater interest and he did not at all regret that they had decided to make New Zealand the venue. Mr Feuerlein said it was known that New Zealand had a ploughing and farming tradition New Zealand ploughmen had always been regarded as above average—and members would be interested in looking at farming and economic conditions and how they influenced the way the soil was ploughed and treated.