Title: The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]

Author: Cyclopedia Company Limited

Publication details: The Cyclopedia Company, Limited, 1905, Christchurch

Part of: The Cyclopedia of New Zealand

License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 New Zealand Licence

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Mr. Robert Smith , Of the firm of Smith Brothers, was born in 1864, in Invercargill, and was brought up to farming. Mr Smith has taken twenty championship prizes at ploughing competitions, and claims to be the first to take a championship prize page 905 for double-furrow ploughing, in which he was successful, at the age of nineteen, against forty-two competitors.