World ploughing this week-end

Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33626, 30 August 1974, Page 6

World ploughing this week-end

Today and tomorrow this year’s New Zealand champion ploughman, E. L. (Elvery) Hunt, of Rongotea. Manawatu, will be ploughing in the 21st world ploughing contest at the Viikki experimental farm, the home of the department of agricultural engineering. University of Helsinki, Finland, against 34 other ploughmen from 17 countries. Today the ploughing will be in rye stubble and tomorrow in a four-year-old grassland ley. The site is old sea bed and the soil is of a moderate light clay and sandy nature with a gravel sub-soil. Competitors will include the 32-year-old Irish farmer, John Tracey, who was runner-up when the contest

was held in Ireland last year. The present world champion, Paavo Tuominen, from Finland, has now! competed three times ini world matches and is no' longer eligible. It will be’ remembered he tied for the’ championship when the I world match was held inCanterbury in 1967. A group of farms near; Oshawa in Ontario, Canada, have been chosen as the site for next year’s world contest. Mr J. R. Murray has ac-i companied Hunt to the i contest in Finland as his manager, and will attend a meeting of the governing board of the World Ploughing Organisation as deputy for Mr E. A. E. Fairhall, of Blenheim. He has also been nominated as a judge for, the match.