DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF AGRICULTURE
Deputy May Succeed Mr Tennent “The Press" Special Service WELLINGTON, August 7. The Director-General of Agriculture, Mr R. B. Tennent, will retire at the end of this month. Though no appointment has been ratified by the Government, it is expected that Mr P. W. Smallfield, deputy director-general, will succeed him. Mr Tennent became DirectorGeneral last November on the retirement of Mr E. J. Fawcett. Mr Smallfield, who is 60, has been with the Department of Agriculture for 37 years. Before taking up x his present position of deputy Director-General he was director of the extension division of the department. Mr Tennent was born in Scotland and was educated in Glasgow and later at the Kilmarnock Dairy College. He later went to Australia and for some time was manager of an experimental farm in Queensland. He served with the Australian forces in World War I.
He came to New Zealand in 1920 as a dairy instructor for the Department of Agriculture. Some time later he became fields superintendent at Dunedin and then director of the fields division of the department, stationed in Wellington. Mr Tennent was appointed deputy director-general of the department in 1943.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28659, 8 August 1958, Page 7
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