SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS

Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31542, 2 December 1967, Page 10

SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS

Two young Canterbury farmers will leave New Zealand in February on Nuffield travelling scholarships. They are Messrs N. Q. Wright, of Annat, who is on the left, and J. O. Acland, of Mount Peel, Peel Forest.

A married man aged 34, with two children, Mr Wright was Dominion president of the New Zealand Federation of Young Farmers’ Clubs in

1963-64. He is a former chairman of the Canterbury council of the movement Christchurch district committee and the Sheffield club.

He is at present vicechairman of the North Canterbury agriculture section of Federated Farmers, and is a delegate to the Dominion agriculture section of the movement.

Mr Wright was also secretary of the Malvern Potato Growers’ Association from 1964 to 1966 and is immediate past president of the Malvern Agricultural and Pastoral Association.

An old boy of Christ’s College, Mr Wright farms, an 830-acre mixed sheep and cropping farm with his brother, Mr A. F. Wright, who is chairman of the North Canterbury meat and wool section of Federated Farmers. They have a flock of 1700 Romney cross ewes and harvest about 450 acres of crop a year, including wheat, barley, peas, cocksfoot, ryegrass and white clover. They have 70 acres in potatoes, in which they specialise in seed production.

In Britain, Mr Wright will study farm management, with an emphasis on mixed arable fanning, the marketing of

New Zealand produce, and bulk handling of grain and potatoes. Mr Acland, aged 31, who is a son of Mr J. Acland, chairman of the New Zealand Wool Board, is a married man with three children. Like Mr Wright, he is an old boy of Christ’s College. After leaving school he worked for Mr M. S. Turton, and then spent a year at Lincoln College. Since 1960 he has been joint manager of the 18,000-acre Mount Peel station in the South Canterbury foothills, which carries 10,000 sheep and 1500 cattle. President of the Geraldine branch of Federated Farmers, Mr Acland is also junior vicepresident of the South Canterbury meat and wool section of Federated Farmers. He is a member of the South Canterbury Agricultural Advisory Committee. Because of his interest in beef cattle Mr Acland has spoken at several conferences, including the national beef cattle symposium held at Palmerston North, and this year’s Lincoln College farmers’ conference, and at field days. In Britain, Mr Acland will be studying all aspects of beef cattle including breeding, research and marketing.