PLOUGHING MATCHES
COMPETITIONS IN CANADA. TORONTO. Ploughing matches, where ploughmen of local as well as international fame compete for high honours arc popular in Canada in the autumn months. The most important of these competitions is the International Ploughing Match which this year observed its silver jubilee. At this match, held at Barrie, near here, 70 tractors and 140 teams of horses took part in the various contests. The event was graced by the presence of His Excellency, Lord Tweedsmuir, GovernorGeneral of Canada, and approximately 40,000 spectators from far and near. At another ploughing match held simultaneously in another part of the country, 66 individual ploughmen entered in the various competitions, the oldest contestant being 70 years old, while the youngest was a boy of ten.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 December 1938, Page 7
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