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Family violence, gangs and drugs drove Ben Purua into a life of crime. Working on a prison farm changed everything.

Media Release: The winner of this year’s Ahuwhenua Young Māori Farmer Award for dairy is Quinn Morgan.

The other two finalists were Anahera Hale, 26, who is working as the second-in-charge farm assistant on Rod and Jackie McPherson’s dairy farm near Whakatāne, where they winter about 360 cows; and Ben Purua, also 26, who is working as the second-in-charge for a contract milker at Trinity Lands farm, near Tokoroa in the South Waikato, which milks 900 cows. The Ahuwhenua Young Māori Farmer Award was first held in 2012 and is designed to recognise talented up-and-coming young Māori farmers a...

You can make it out: From South Auckland gangster life to promising Waikato farming career 14 May, 2021 12:00 AM 6 minutes to read Ahuwhenua Trophy Young Māori Farmer Award finalist Ben Purua, with his wife Nikki, at Waikeria Prison where he served a prison sentence for manslaughter. Photo / Dean Taylor Ahuwhenua Trophy Young Māori Farmer Award finalist Ben Purua, with his wife Nikki, at Waikeria Prison where he served a prison sentence for manslaughter. Photo / Dean Taylor Dean Taylor is edi...

Council blasts farmers who let the side down after raft of convictions for unlawful effluent discharge Newshub 18/01/2021 © Provided by Newshub Waikato Regional Council has blasted farmers who "continue to let the side down", after a number of recent court cases resulted in convictions for unlawfully discharging farm effluent. Seven separate cases against Waikato farmers and businessmen resulted in convictions and fines totalling $318,025, the council said in a statement. Sentencing for the...

Monday, 18 January 2021, 12:28 pm Seven separate court cases against Waikato farmers and businesses have found that they each unlawfully discharged farm effluent into the environment. The cases have been sentenced over the last three months, with the final case being made public today, resulting in convictions and a total of $318,025 in fines. The prosecutions were taken by Waikato Regional Council under the Resource Management Act. “Farming is obviously a huge and vital industry that contrib...

A Waikato Regional Council officer inspects the extent of effluent pollution at a farm. Judge Melinda Dickey convicted the company in Tokoroa District Court on January 18 and fined it $46,900. The council was alerted to the incident by a member of the public. The highest fine was given to Taupō dairy farmer John Richard Lockwood, who was fined $80,500 for over applying effluent three times – in September and October 2019, and August 2020. He was convicted by Judge David Kirkpatrick in ...