MEN OF NOTE AROUND THE PROVINCE

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 318, 31 March 1928, Page 25

MEN OF NOTE AROUND THE PROVINCE

]ITR. T. H. PATTERSON, Senior I nstructor of A.griculture for the Auckland Province, leaves early this month to take up an important position with the Hawkesbury Agricultural College, New South Wales. He has led the way in the promotion of better farming in the Auckland Province for nearly ten years.

A native of New South Wales, Mr. Patterson graduated from the Hawkesbury College with high honours, and quickly received an appointment with the New Zealand Department of Education as an instructor in agriculture. From there he went to the Department of Agriculture and was the first district instructor appointed when the officers of the department were put on a professional basis, nine or ten years ago, and the department reorganised. • During the time Mr. Patterson has had control of the Auckland district his work has had worldwide recognition. His special scheme, the development of the gum lands of the North, has been most favourably commented upon. Some of his research work has been far-reaching enough to receive the recognition of the B.M.A. in that association's efforts to combat hayfever and asthma. He has organised winter courses of lectures among the farmers throughout the province, and generally brought the best the department had to offer in the way of assistance and advice to the farmers’ back door. Mr. Patterson belongs to a clasc the country can ill afford to lose.