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FRIDAY AUGUST 30, 2019
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AUGUST 30, 2019
Lost…and found!
By Caitlan Johnston
Korakonui School was celebrating the return of the missing Te Awamutu A&P Agricultural Shield last Friday - thanks to a Te Awamutu News story. The 85-year-old shield, also known as the Challenge Shield, was found stacked up on a wall in Scotty Dog Engravers shop on Kihikihi’s main street. The shop has been owned since earlier this year by Raj Mistry and he was unaware just what the shield was until a travelling trophy representative visited – having seen it featured on last week’s Te Awamutu News front page. “The phone call at lunchtime on Friday was very welcomed, we have it back and that’s all that matters,” said Korakonui School office manager Faye Ashmore. The school was keen to find the shield as they will be hosting the Te Awamutu Group Agricultural Day on October 23 where calves will be competing again having been excluded last year because of a mycoplasma bovis outbreak. The shield is awarded to the school whose team of three students and their calves perform the best collectively at the group day. Last week’s Te Awamutu News featured the 2014 holders of the shield Crystal Fitzgerald and cousins Mackenzie and Bailey Fitzgerald – and they were among those to celebrate its recovery. Te Awamutu Intermediate’s agricultural day organiser, deputy principal Sue Germann, said the shield had been collected in September 2018 while she was away on a school trip, presumably for engraving, but no contact details were recorded. The school had followed up by checking with engravers, including Scotty Dog, but by that time it had been sold. Celebrating the recovery of the shield this week were Crystal Fitzgerald and cousins Mackenzie and Bailey Fitzgerald, who were pictured (top right) when they won it in 2014.
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