FARMING TROPHY

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 66, Issue 5634, 28 June 1943, Page 2

FARMING TROPHY

ONE of the many helpful things done by Lord Bledisloe, during his term of office as Governor-General of the Dominion, was the presentation of a cup, the Arawhenua Trophy, for annual competition among Maori farmers. This year, as announced recently, it has been won by a farmer at Horohoro, a place that was once a wilderness of fem, but has been brought in by the Maoris, and to-day is a most attractive area devoted to dairy farming. Development work was commenced in 1931, and the settlement has been most successful. The winner of the trophy, Mr Tihema Kingi, has been placed third last year and fourth in the year before that, so that his success is clearly the result of a sustained constructive effort. The general standard of farming at Horohoro is good, for this is the second time that a Maori settler there has won the coveted trophy. A few years ago a Maori woman, farming an area in the Bay of Plenty, was successful. When the young men now serving

with such distinction overseas return and go on the land they, too, will become keen competitors, for the trophy is the official symbol of good farming among the Maori people.