Cairn of Peace

Press, 6 May 1980, Page 2

Cairn of Peace

A Cairn of Peace marks the site of each world ploughing contest, and the cairn which will be erected close to the scene of this month’s world contest near Lincoln is now almost finished.

It consists of a greywacke boulder, recovered from a rugged creek about 11km inland from Mount Somers in Mid-Canterbury on Mr R. A. Burnett’s Mount Somers station.

! The boulder sits on a concrete base, into which have ibeen set pieces of stone that I have come .from countries | taking part in the contest. '■ The inscription on the front of the cairn records that the boulder represents the strong base rock from which the Canterbury Plains are formed. Above it is a bronze disc bearing the emblem of the World Ploughing Organisation and at the back of the cairn is another disc linking the occasion with New Zealand, with a plough over a map of New Zealand. The cairn, weighing about four tonnes, will be moved next Monday to the site of the world contest, where it will he unveiled at the end of the contest, and subsequently moved alongside the cairn at the corner of Robinsons Road and Springs Road, which marks the scene of the world contest held in the same area in 1967.

Messrs B. K., T. R. and N. F. Robertson, of L. Robertson, monumental craftsmen, who have fashioned this cairn, also worked on the cairn of 13 years ago.