PLOUGHING PRODIGY.
1)0Y AGED EIGHT. DRIVES MOTOR TRACTOR. WELLINGTON (N.S.W.), May 31. He is only eight, but he could leach many • men aged 80 much about farming 'and ploughing with a motor tractor. He is the son of Mr. Norman Altborpe. a Dripstone farmer, and every Saturday and Sunday and on other school holidays the boy may lie seen ploughing with a motor tractor, doing the job as well ns any man. To enable him to see over the tractor a few cushions have to bo placed on the driving seat, and if anything goes wrong with the engine (he 'boy invariably knows how to right it.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17057, 11 June 1926, Page 5
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107PLOUGHING PRODIGY. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17057, 11 June 1926, Page 5
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