SSH: PGW: SSH Notice (Rural Portfolio Investments Securities Limited)

26 Apr 2010 4:21 pm

PGW 26/04/2010 SSH

REL: 1621 HRS PGG Wrightson Limited

SSH: PGW: SSH Notice (Rural Portfolio Investments Securities Limited)

Disclosure of ceasing to have substantial holding Section 25, Securities Markets Act 1988

To: NZX And: PGG Wrightson Limited Date this disclosure made: 26 April 2010 Date last disclosure made: 21 April 2010

Substantial security holder(s) giving disclosure Name: Rural Portfolio Investments Securities Limited Contact details: Sandra Keay sandra.keay@aorangi.biz (03) 471 8953 Date on which substantial security holder(s) ceased to have substantial holding: 26 April 2010 Summary of previous substantial holding to which disclosure relates Class of listed voting securities: Ordinary shares in PGG Wrightson Limited Summary for Rural Portfolio Investments Securities Limited

For last disclosure: total number hold in class: 48,457,450 total in class: 758,440,543 total percentage held in class: 6.39%

For current holding after ceasing to have substantial holding: total number hold in class: 0 total in class: 758,440,543 total percentage held in class: 0%

Details of transactions and events giving rise to person ceasing to have substantial holding Details of the transactions or other events requiring disclosure under the instructions to this form: Settlement by Rural Portfolio Investments Securities Limited on 26 April 2010 of the off-market sale of all of its 48,457,450 shares in PGG Wrightson Limited. The consideration was $0.56cps ($27,136,172).

Additional information Nature of the connection between substantial security holders: N/A Address(es) of substantial security holder(s): 10th Floor, John Wickliffe House, 275 Princes Street, Dunedin. Name of any other person believed to have given, or believed to be required to give, a disclosure under the Act in relation to the securities to which this disclosure relates: Rural Portfolio Investments Limited.

Declaration I, Sandra Anne Keay, declare that, to the best of my knowledge and belief, the information contained in this disclosure is correct and that I am duly authorised to make this disclosure by all persons for whom it is made. End CA:00194169 For:PGW Type:SSH Time:2010-04-26:16:21:34

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