AT THIS year’s Royal Highland Show, the organising committee’s chairman, Clark Stewart, will be sporting a specially made shepherd’s crook when he tours the showground.
This was made for him by show veteran, John McNair, High Smerby, Campbeltown, to mark his 50 years of competing at Ingliston . Now retired from farming, the 76-year-old is a self-taught stick maker who started showing at the Highland 1961, when he had a first prize. Since then, he has been overall champion in the section six times.
His daughter, Susan Mackay, said: “Although my father hasn’t been in the best of health recently the family wanted to mark his association with the show in some way. We had thought about presenting a trophy but the idea was put to us that a commemorative chairman’s stick might be appropriate.”
From http://www.thescottishfarmer.co.uk/news ... -1.1107108
