Professor J. W. Calder
News of Professor J. W. Calder, former assistant director of Canterbury Agricultural College and professor of agricultural botany who retired from the college at the end of March, 1959, after 35 years on the college staff, has been brought back with him by Mr C. E. Iversen, reader in agronomy at the college who served under Professor Calder. Mr. Iversen said that Professor Calder, who was now scientific adviser to a seed firm in England, was a rejuvenated version of the youthful figure so well known to farmers at field days at the college. “He has a tremendous contact with and impact on farming in Britain,” and remarked Mr Iversen, “like Professor T. W. Walker, Professor M. M. Cooper and Mr Sandy Copland he is one of the hindrances to higher prices for our products. “Mrs Calder is thoroughly enjoying her sojourn in England, which looks as though it may be of indefinite duration as the purchase of a farm is one of the, things uppermost in her husband’s mind at present.”
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29336, 15 October 1960, Page 9
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