Bay Harbour: January 22, 2020
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Wednesday <strong>January</strong> <strong>22</strong> <strong>2020</strong><br />
News<br />
Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz<br />
BAY HARBOUR<br />
PAGE 7<br />
Good weather attracts large<br />
crowds to Little River A&P Show<br />
APPRECIATION: Kevin Lawrence and Roriana Tini present<br />
ribbons to equestrian competitors.<br />
THE SUN was beaming down<br />
during the 108th Banks Peninsula<br />
A&P Show at Little River on<br />
Saturday.<br />
About 2000 people turned out<br />
to enjoy crafts, food, plants, animals<br />
and to compete in a range of<br />
events at Awa-iti domain.<br />
The show is the highlight of<br />
the year for many local farmers,<br />
growers and producers.<br />
It gives them the chance to showcase<br />
what Banks Peninsula has to<br />
offer to the community, as well as<br />
the hundreds who attendfrom the<br />
rest of Canterbury and beyond.<br />
Banks Peninsula A&P Association<br />
committee member<br />
Sheryl Stanbury said the show ran<br />
smoothly.<br />
“The weather was fantastic, it<br />
was good for the animals and<br />
good for the humans.”<br />
PHOTOS: COLIN MONTEATH<br />
CRITIQUE: Dave Carr judges the wool competition with farmer<br />
Giles Foley.<br />
BEAUTY: Bright colours filled the tables during the flower<br />
competition.<br />
BOUNDING: Pickett attempts<br />
the dog high jump while<br />
owner, Berny Schapiro, stands<br />
on top of the hay bales.<br />
ELEGANCE: Show patron Ted<br />
Patten presenting the Supreme<br />
Champion Animal of the Show<br />
Award to Meg Feming, for her<br />
horse Bewitched of Flaxmill.<br />
IMPRESSIVE: Pete Wright won<br />
the local farmer speed shear.<br />
Award honours farmer’s long service<br />
• By David Hill<br />
BANKS PENINSULA<br />
farmer Paul de Latour<br />
was surprised to receive<br />
the Duvauchelle A&P<br />
Show’s highest honour.<br />
The show stalwart<br />
received the Banks<br />
Peninsula Recognition<br />
Award at the 151st<br />
Paul de Latour<br />
annual show at the Duvauchelle<br />
Showgrounds<br />
in the Akaroa <strong>Harbour</strong><br />
area on <strong>January</strong> 11.<br />
‘‘It was a surprise. I<br />
thought when [show<br />
president] Tania [Kiely]<br />
rang me she was<br />
ringing to talk about<br />
doing the announcing,’’<br />
he said.<br />
Mr de Latour and his wife<br />
Frances were once again at the<br />
show, in the announcer’s box<br />
where they have served for more<br />
than a decade.<br />
Over the years Mr de Latour<br />
has been an exhibitor, volunteer,<br />
committee member, show president<br />
in 1981 and then supervising<br />
marshal in the jumping ring<br />
for 21 years until 2005.<br />
The de Latours farmed 1115ha<br />
at Lavericks <strong>Bay</strong> on Banks Peninsula,<br />
farming up to 4500 sheep<br />
and 950 head of cattle.<br />
On February <strong>22</strong>, 2011, the day<br />
of the Christchurch earthquake,<br />
the de Latours downsized, moving<br />
to the 148ha Lynhurst farm<br />
at Okains <strong>Bay</strong>, where they breed<br />
200 Angus and Angus-cross<br />
cattle.<br />
The couple’s daughter and<br />
son-in-law, Harriet and Lloyd<br />
Chapman, have taken over the<br />
Lavericks <strong>Bay</strong> farm.<br />
Mr de Latour has been active<br />
in the community over the<br />
years including with the Le<br />
Bons <strong>Bay</strong> Cricket Club, the<br />
Banks Peninsula Racing Club,<br />
the Akaroa Community Health<br />
Trust, and more.<br />
Winston waters his<br />
plants, not his lawn<br />
He knows lawns go green again in Autumn<br />
Water like Winnie.<br />
Water like you oughta.<br />
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