Traction engines were among the vintage machinery on display.
Staff from Darfield's Bray St Engineering were at the show raising funds for the Friends of Darfield Hospital and sponsoring the vintage display. Peter Stanley (left), Alena Powell, Gary Woolf and Peter Newton sauce up a sausage.
A goat takes in the view from atop a hay bale, at the farmyard nursery run by the Arion Farm Education Park, which is based at McLean's Island, near Christchurch.
This fleece entered by RW & VR Manson won premier exhibit in wool and champion strong wool fleece.
Darfield High School Year 13 business studies group students Elyse Kerr (18) and Bridget Leach (18) were selling a book they published, Cupcakes and Friends, based on stories from the SPCA, with 25% of the proceeds going to the SPCA.
Malvern Community Board member Megan Hands (left) was on hand to discuss the issues of today, while Darfield Genealogy and Local History Group members Wilma Webster and Bev Robb were promoting a book published by the group, Malvern WW1 Soldiers: Lest...
Pecking Order film star Brian Glassey, of Ashburton, was among the winners again with his Plymouth rock fowl male, which won champion male in poultry.
After his success at the New Zealand Agricultural Show the previous week, John Burrows, of West Eyreton near Rangiora, was among the winners again, winning champion Dorset Down ram.
Deb Crump, of Burnt Hill near Oxford, leads her Saanen dairy goat buck, Denore Victory, which won reserve champion dairy goat. Mrs Crump also won best in show with her Saanen-sable-cross doe.
Heavy rain and mud did not stop the 143rd annual Courtenay A&P Show going ahead at the Kirwee Domain, near Christchurch, on Saturday. Central Rural Life journalist David Hill went along to snap some of the action.
Photos: David Hill
