LINCOLN COLLEGE DIRECTOR

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21858, 11 August 1936, Page 12

LINCOLN COLLEGE DIRECTOR

FORMER CHRISTCHURCH MAN APPOINTED MR E. R. HUDSON’S CAREER The Board of Governors of Canterbury Agricultural College, Lincoln, has appointed Mr E. R. Hudson, B.Ag., B Sc., at present superintendent of the Extension Service of the Tasmanian Department of Agriculture, as professor of agriculture and director of the college. Mr Hudson was born in Christchurch, receiving - his early education at the Sydenham primary school and the Christchurch Technical College. The appointment, was made at a meeting of the board yesterday. There were 50 applications for the position, out of which four were chosen for the final appointment. A committee of the Senate of the University of New Zealand has approved ol the appointment of Mr Hudson as a professor of the Ul Mi^ r iiudson is 41 years of age. He has had considerable experience ,of practical farming, as, after leaving school in 1908, he spent eight years on the land! in both islands of New Zealand, in New South Wales, . ana in Queensland. In this period he gained excellence of almost every kind of farming, on properties ranging from small suburban dairy. farms to large sheep and cattle stations. War Service Mr Hudson served in the Great War from 1915 to 1917, in Egypt and D ranee. H° was wounded in the fii st battle of the Somme and was , .^ oi y e in the early part of 1917. On his return he again took up farming work, but before long he was appointed a junior teacher in the Christchurch Technical College, at the same time continuing his studies at Canteibuiy Mr Hudson had |°§’c Ple a‘„l wls in Mricultae at the Wanganui Technical College In 1924 he became lecturer in agriculture and senior science lecturer at the Dunedin Teachers Training College, positions which he held fo- the next three and a half years. I ' Dunedin Mr Hudson continued his Studies in chemistry agricultural economics, genetics, and “e m 0 f „, n At the beginning ot 1928 Mr Hudson moved to Tasmania to take up the position which he is now leaving As superintendent, bis duties included the planning and carrying out of all educational work m agriculture. Undci his supervision was a staff of 16 officers engaged in field experimental work agricultural education, and supervision. The management of properties in which the Tasmanian Government is financially interested was in the hands of Mr Hudson and lus St Experimental Work Mr Hudson has had to co-operate with the Tasmanian Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, and with the State Veterinary Service m experimental work on animal nutruion and animal parasiloloev. He has aLo been editor of the Tasmanian Jouxnal of Agriculture and all other depau mental publications m tne state. When the Australian Institute of Agriculture was established last year he was elected first president of the Tasmanian section of the institute. In outside activities. Mr Hudson has been president of the Northern Tasmanian Fisheries Association f Acclimatisation Society). He was mundation president of the Launceston hug > Football Club. For tnree years he has conducted a course in biology for students of the University of iasmama.at the Launceston Senior Technical School. He has examined for the un.1 versity of New Zealand in matncula- ! tier biology, and for public examina tions of the New Zealand Education Department raid the University of taxman in.