INSTRUCTORS ON POULTRY

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29931, 19 September 1962, Page 20

INSTRUCTORS ON POULTRY

Resignations To Join Firms

The two supervising poultry instructors of the Department of Agriculture have both resigned to take up appointments as advisory officers with Christchurch milling and stock tood manufacturing Arms. Mr H. H. Watson, of Christchurch, who has been in charge of the South Island and the Wellington-Masterton area, will take up his new position with Fleming and Company. Ltd. nexs month, and the North Island supervising instructor. Mr J. Edmondson, will join D. H. Brow’n and Son, Ltd. early in November. The resignations of the two officers will leave a gap in the department's poultry advisory section. The chief advisory officer, Mr C. F. Bobby, who is due to retire next year after 22 years' service, is at present seriously ill. Mr Watson, who is 41. joined the department in 1939 at the Wallaceville poultry station, which was then pant of the animal research station. After serving overseas in the Middle East and Italy he returned and was appointed instructor at Dunedin in 1946. Later he was instructor at Oamaru and in 1952 was transferred to Wellington where he did part field work and assisted the chief advisory officer. In 1957 he was appointed senior instructor for Canterbury and Westland, and was promoted to supervising instructor for the South Island this year. Mr Edmondson has also had wide experience in instruction and experimental work and was for a time stationed at Oamaru