NEW DOMINION Y.F.C. PRESIDENT
Second Chosen From Sheffield Club
Within three years, two members of the Sheffield branch of the Young Farmers’ Clubs have been elected Dominion president of the federation. Mr P. G. Morrison, the new Dominion president, takes the same office which was held by Mr Allan Wright, of Annat, in 1958. Mr Morrison's sister, Miss Julie Morrison, was Dominion president of the Federation of Country Girls’ Clubs in 1953-54. She is now Mrs R. L. Bennetts, wife of the secretary of the Canterbury Y.F.C. council. Mr Morrison joined the Sheffield branch of the Y.F.C. in 1948, when he left St. Bede’s College and became club secretary in 1949, vice-chairman in 1954 and in 1955 was elected club chairman and chairman of the Christchurch district committee. In 1957 he was elected chairman of the Canterbury council
and has served on the Dominion executive since 1956. He was delegate to the Federated Farmers’ Dominion Council in 1956 and at the recent conference spoke on behalf of the Y.F.C. federation on land policy. Mr Morrison represented the Canterbury council in the radio leadership contest in 1951, and in 1952 he was a member of the Sheffield Y.F.C. team which won the national debating competitions. In 1953, he took the intensive eight months' course at Canterbury Agricultural College as holder of the Canterbury Frozen Meat Company’s Y.F.C. scholarship. Stock judging has been of special interest to Mr Morrison, who has had successes in -club, district, and council contests. He was in the Christchurch district team on each of three occasions' when the team won the teams’ trophy at the national competitions.
Mr Morrison farms in partnership with his father on a 327-acre mixed cropping farm at Sheffield carrying from 500 to 900 ewes, the numbers depending on the smaU seeds markets and cropping programmes. He has his own Bordejr-Leicester stud of about 50 ewes.
The dinner table is the best reminder of one’s lost youth. I can no more eat what I like. I must only nibble what I must.— Somerset Maugham.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29270, 30 July 1960, Page 10
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