Newton Agricultural and Labourers’ Friend Society: the twenty-fifth annual meeting of this Society was held yesterday. The ploughing match took place in a field on Buckland Barton, about a mile and a half from the town and in the occupation of Mr. William Rendell. There were twenty-three ploughs entered. The hedging and ditching took place in the same field and the thatching in a field on the opposite side of the road. … … Prizes … … Class 3: To the youth under 19 years of age with the double- or one-way plough: 1st prize, £1 10s; 2nd, 15s: Two competitors: 1st prize, Frederick Rowe, in the employ of Mr. G. Ford, Bovey; 2nd, do. George Warren, in the employ of Mr. Pinsent of Ware.
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GRO0492 Hennock: John Pinsent: 1838 – 1916