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N.Z. STUDENT'S SUCCESS. HORTICULTURAL TRAINING. (By Telegraph.—-Own Correspondent.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. Out of some GO trainees at the Royal Botailic-Gardens, Kew, London, Mr. R. Balcli, a trainee of the Christchurch Botailic Gardens, has been selected to take a year's course in horticulture at Berlin, on exchange with a "German student. Under a scheme of overseas training, in- which the Christchurch Domains Board participates, about 10 trainees are selected annually from the British Empire for training at Kew, and Mr. Balph, - who left about fifteen months ago, was the first to go from here, shortly after winning the Cockayne Memorial gold medal of the New Zealand Institute of Horticulture. There is every possibility that another trainee will leave within tile next twelve months.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 75, 30 March 1939, Page 12
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