OLD STUDENTS' SCHOLARSHP

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22594, 27 December 1938, Page 14

OLD STUDENTS' SCHOLARSHP

LINCOLN COLLEGE

AWARD TO SOUTHLAND FARMER

Mr A. C. Cameron, chairman of the Otago and. Southland Council of the New Zealand Federation of Young 'Farmers’ Clubs, advises that out of 20 applications received from members of Young Farmers’ Clubs throughout the South Island, George Osborne Fallow, of Thornbury, Southland, has been selected as the holder of the Canterbury Agricultural College Old Students’ Association Scholarship for 1939. Tlie successful young farmer is a son of Mr John Fallow, a well-known farmer in Thornbury. Southland. He is 23 years of age, and is the present chairman of the Thornbury Young Farmers’ Club, a club which he has taken a very active interest in since its inception some years ago. He has also served a term as secretary of the club. He is the club’s representative on the Southland District Committee, and one of the Southland representatives on the Otago and. Southland Council of the Federation. At all times he has proved himself to be an able and conscientious delegate possessing a strong personality and sound common sense. In addition to the work he has done for the Young Farmers’ Club Movement, Mr Fallow has taken an active interest, in various activities in his district. He is a member of the Anzac Memorial Committee, Thornbury Public Hall Committee, Thornbury Presbyterian Bible Class and Miniature Rifle Club. He possesses fine personality and physique and is also a particularly good debater. He has been working on his fathers sheep and dairy farm at Thornbury since December, 1931, and before that had three years’ secondary education at the Southland Technical High School.

The selection committee, Messrs Alan Grant, farmer, Waimate, R. McQillivray, Fields Superintendent. Department of Agriculture, Christchurch, J. M. Smith, Fields Superintendent, Department of Agriculture, Dunedin, and A. C. Cameron. Dunedin,, report that, generally speaking, they were satisfied with the standard of applications received this year, some at them being outstanding. Several very promising applications had to be passed over, said Mr Cameron, because more young farmers had not had much opportunity to prove themselves in Young Farmers’ Club work; but in the opinion of the selectors, one or two of these young farmers will have to be reckoned with during the next year or two. Generally speaking, the standard of the Southland applicants was higher than elsewhere in the South Island. In the opinion of the selectors, the qualifications of several of the applicants warrant an endeavour being made to get additional 1939 scholarships for Southland and Canterbury Provinces, and steps will be taken in this connexion early in the New Year.