The other two finalists were Anahera Hale, 26, who is working as the second-in-charge farm assistant on Rod and Jackie McPherson’s dairy farm near Whakatāne, where they winter about 360 cows; and Ben Purua, also 26, who is working as the second-in-charge for a contract milker at Trinity Lands farm, near Tokoroa in the South Waikato, which milks 900 cows. The Ahuwhenua Young Māori Farmer Award was first held in 2012 and is designed to recognise talented up-and-coming young Māori farmers and growers, and to encourage young Māori to make farming a career choice. Judge Aaron Hunt said Quinn Morgan exemplified all that is good about young Māori who are making successful careers in the primary sector.
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Ahuwhenua Trophy Young Māori Farmer Award finalist Ben Purua, with his wife Nikki, at Waikeria Prison where he served a prison sentence for manslaughter. Photo / Dean Taylor
Ahuwhenua Trophy Young Māori Farmer Award finalist Ben Purua, with his wife Nikki, at Waikeria Prison where he served a prison sentence for manslaughter. Photo / Dean Taylor
Dean Taylor is editor of the Te Awamutu Courierdean.taylor@nzme.co.nz
Tonight, Ben Purua will stand on the stage at the Ahuwhenua Trophy Dairy Competition Awards Dinner as one of three finalists in the Young Māori Farmer Award. Ten years ago, as a teenager, he stood
Crown-owned property can be part of a financial and commercial redress package, depending on the suitability of the property in the area relevant to the claimant group. But McEnteer said it became clear that wasn’t going to be a possibility for Pouarua, so the purchase price of the farm was deducted from the financial redress the five iwi were to receive. Effectively it meant the group used the settlement money to buy the same property taken from them 100 years ago. That was when the Crown used the Public Works Act and the Land Drainage Act to acquire the Hauraki land in the 1800s and early 1900s.
How the 2017 Edgecumbe floods helped forge a new career path
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Anahera Hale studied agriculture at Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology. Photo / Supplied
Rotorua Daily Post
Being forced out of her home after the 2017 Edgecumbe flood has led one local to pursue a career in farming.
Anahera Hale and her grandmother were living on a family friend s dairy farm after their home was flooded and the experience prompted her to study the Level 3 New Zealand Certificate in Agriculture at Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology. I was watching the farmer drive up and down the farm on the farm bike. I thought to myself, I can see myself doing that, working with animals and being outdoors.