STUDENT'S SUCCESS
GOLD MEDAL AWARD
(By Telegraph.—-Press Association.) CHRI3TCHUBCH, oth December. Mr. H. A. Knight, a member of the Board of Governors of Lincoln College, and the first student to be enrolled at the college, has been recommended by tho board for the award of a gold medal presented by the Governor-General for distinguished ex-students. The recommendation was made unanimously by the Board of Governors to-day. j Mr. Knight has been a successful farmer at Racecourse Hill since boyhood. He was the first farmer in Can-j terbury to grow solid straw Tuscan! wheat, and now over CO per cent, of the wheat grown in the province is of this variety. He is now a successful breeder of Southdown and English Loicesters, in which breeds he has valuable studs. He has been a member of the Board of Governors of' Lincoln College for many years'/ and chairman for eleven years'; he was chairman of Malvem County for 15 years, and he has been chairman of the Board of Directors- of the New Zealand Refrigerating Company for the past eleven years. Probably Mr. .Knight is best known as the wner of the racehorse Limerick, and in the sporting world generally, being one of the oldest stewards of the Canterbury Jockey Club.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 140, 11 December 1930, Page 11
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209STUDENT'S SUCCESS Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 140, 11 December 1930, Page 11
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