North Canterbury News: October 28, 2021
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NEWS<br />
<strong>North</strong> <strong>Canterbury</strong> <strong>News</strong>, <strong>October</strong> <strong>28</strong>, <strong>2021</strong><br />
Out and about in <strong>North</strong> <strong>Canterbury</strong><br />
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Taking flight again ... Albie Roxburgh, aged 11, in aswing made for him when he was<br />
five years old, in the garden of his Leithfield home at The Old Vicarage, owned by his parents<br />
Eryn and Andrew Roxburgh. The garden was part of the Leithfield Garden Tour which was<br />
held last Saturday and Sunday to raise funds for the Leithfield Public Library. PHOTOS:SHELLEY TOPP<br />
Supreme champion ... Richard and Wendy Farquhar, of Dunedin, travelled up to the<br />
Rangiora Showgrounds on Saturday to win supreme champion suri alpaca with Paru Nui<br />
Fyfe at the exhibitors only <strong>North</strong>ern A&P Association’s show.<br />
PHOTOS: DAVIDHILL<br />
Keep him close ...<br />
Junior herdsperson<br />
judge Amy<br />
Hoogenboom offers<br />
some tips to<br />
competitors.<br />
Garden beauty ... A<br />
bearded iris in Jenny<br />
and Colin Bryce’s<br />
garden during the<br />
Leithfield Garden<br />
Tour.<br />
Birds eye view ... Afloral cross at the<br />
entrance to St Paul’s Anglican Church in<br />
Leithfield, which was part of the Leithfield<br />
Garden Tour.<br />
Day out in the sunshine ... Niki Hulston, of Oxford, left, and Ginny<br />
Waghorn, of Amberley, called in at The Old Vicarage, owned by<br />
Eryn and Andrew Roxburgh, during the Leithfield Garden Tour.<br />
First place ... Nicola Green, of Fernside, and her<br />
donkey Daisy after claiming first place for best jenny.<br />
Caption7<br />
In training ... Hillary Cooper (16), of Oxford Area<br />
School, won the senior handler class in the junior<br />
herdsperson competition after leading her Wagyu<br />
Friesian cross steer, which she has in training for the<br />
2022 Future Beef New Zealand ‘‘hoof and hook’’<br />
competition, in Hawkes Bay in May.
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