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Topside Maori Farmer.

There is a greatly gratified Maori wheat-grower in the King Country, an industrious and enterprising farmer named Hurore Moerua. He put down a hundred acres in wheat, emulating the grain-growing toil and profit of his chieftain grandfather, and lately he disposed of the harvest. He received a shipment of flour from the millers, and a report from the wheat research authorities stating that his wheat had yielded 77 per cent. flour, the highest for the Dominion, and also that the flour secured the highest baking score for the Dominion.

So a Maori agriculturist has the satisfaction of knowing that he has beaten all his pakeha fellow-farmers at their own job. Moerua's top score is all the more noteworthy because he could not afford to purchase any fertiliser; he sowed the seed on an unmanured piece of land, a few miles from Te Kuiti. He worked the ground well before sowing, and he reaped the reward of his industry. Kia ora, Moerua!