BLEDISLOE MEDAL
AGRICULTURAL AWARD FOR 1932. (Per Press Association Copyright.) CHRISTCHURCH, December 20. The Bledisl'oe Medal for 1932, presented by the Governor-General, for award to the ex-s.iludent of Lincoln College', who is 1 considered to have rendered the greatest -service to the agricultural community, has been awarded this year to Mr George Rennie, of Taupiri, Waikato. In 1916 Mr Rennie, who had been the first Agricultural Instructor employed by the Canterbury Education Board, and later a member of the Board of Governors of Lincoln College and Canterbury College, went to Taupiri. Taking up a block of 500 acres that year, he reduced it from a. rough state to fine pasture. He wa,s the pioneer in Waikato of intensive winter feeding, and his use of fertilisers was more or less a renv ! departure. Ho also achieved marked success in swamp reclamation. 'Last year his return from 215 cows averaged 390.181 b. per cow. Mr H. J. Geddas, M.Agric.Sc., assistant in 'agriculture at Lincoln College, will leave in March next ito take up an appointment as District Agricultural Organiser in Tasmania under idle Department of Agriculture of tint State. !
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 December 1932, Page 7
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187BLEDISLOE MEDAL Hokitika Guardian, 21 December 1932, Page 7
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