New Telford Trainee

A Manunui boy, Derek T. Kapinga, was the only Maori boy selected by the Department of Maori and Island Affairs for the 1970 intake at the Telford Farm Training Institute at Balclutha.

Derek was accredited his University Entrance examination at Taumarunui High School during 1969. He was a prefect, senior champion athlete for 1969, a member of the first fifteen and of the King Country secondary schools Rugby team.

He is a member of the Ngati Tuwharetoa and Ngati Maniapoto tribes and his parents farm in the Ngapuke Valley at Manunui. After completing his year at Telford, Derek hopes to take an agricultural course at Lincoln.