LINCOLN LECTURERS

Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31498, 12 October 1967, Page 8

LINCOLN LECTURERS

Three new lecturers have been appointed to begin duties at Lincoln College on February 1. Dr R. F. R. McNabb will be a lecturer in plant pathology. Educated at Whangarei and Southland Boys* High Schools, he graduated master of science with first-class honours in botany at the University of Otago in 1958 and won the Holloway prize in botany. In 1959 he was appointed a scientific officer in the Plant Diseases Division, won a National Research Fellowship in 1960, and studied at the University of London where he was awarded his PhD. for work in mycology. Returning to the Plant Diseases Division in 1964, he later formed a new section on agaricales. He was jointly awarded the Hamilton memorial prize by the Royal Society of New Zealand in 1966 Mr R. Frizzell will be a lecturer in rural valuation. He is district valuer at Timaru. He trained at Lincoln College and joined the field staff of the Valuation Department, serving in Southland and then as district valuer in Christchurch, Wairarapa, and South Canterbury. During these 14 years he was responsible for the valuation of 22 counties covering almost every type of farm property. Personally he made valuations ammounting to 5100,000,000. He is an associate member of the New Zealand Institute of Valuers and chairman of the South Canterbury branch. Mr G. F. Tate will be a lecturer in farm management. After education at the Mount

Albert Grammar School he took dairying and pig husbandry courses at Massey College and the intensive course and diploma in valuation and farm management at Lincoln College. * * Mr Tate was a farm adviser for the State Advances Corporation in Dunedin. Invercargill, and Hammon' and since 1963 has been farm management adviser to the Southland Farm Improvement Club. He is national president of the Farm Improvement Advisory Officers’ Association, and has served as an officer in the New Zealand Institute of Valuers and the New Zealand Institute of Agricultural Science. He is a member of the New Zealand Grasslands Association and New Zealand Society for Animal Production.