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AMBERLEY A&P SHOW<br />

<strong>North</strong> <strong>Canterbury</strong> <strong>News</strong>, <strong>November</strong> 5, <strong>2020</strong><br />

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Show draws fans eager for aday out<br />

Pet lambs ... WaiparagirlsAnna<br />

Croft, left, aged9,and her lamb<br />

Pebbles,and Clementine Forbes,<br />

also 9, withher brother’s lamb Big<br />

Joe, at back, and her lamb Bruse,<br />

get ready to enter the ring. More<br />

show coverage,pages 35 and 36.<br />

PHOTOS:DAVIDHILL<br />

Feed akid ... Stephanie Rayward, of Clarkville, near Kaiapoi, feeds<br />

one of her goat kids in the pet tent.<br />

Trickortreat ... HurunuiYouth Project members, from left, NoahWilson,John<br />

Fairbrother and twins Byron and Bradley Turner, all aged17, were armed and<br />

readyfor Halloween.<br />

Tastetest ... Mark Woelders,left, and Kevin Rowe enjoy their judging job in the ‘‘hoof to hotplate’’<br />

competition. Mr Rowe said he was impressed with the 18 samples of beeffrom calves entered by local<br />

farmers.Washingitdown with localwine was agood perk, too. Lamb from 23 localfarmers wasalso tested.<br />

Accident scenario ... The Amberley Volunteer Fire Brigade gives a<br />

demonstration based around amock accident scene.<br />

Feature breed ... JudgesMarty Loffhagen, left, of Waipara,Bill Bain,secondleft,<br />

of Roxburgh, and Andrew Heard,right,ofMtCass Station, Waipara, deliberate<br />

with New Zealand Sheep Breeders’ AssociationpresidentTom Burrows overthe<br />

winner of the Corriedale ram hogget feature class.<br />

Pet sheep ... DeidreWard, of Sefton, nearRangiora, gives<br />

her pet sheep PrettyPants, a2­year­old wether,acuddle.<br />

Ewe beauty ... Ruth and Keith Berry, of<br />

Waipara, won the champion all breeds ewe<br />

hogget section.

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