First Scholarship Winner

Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31548, 9 December 1967, Page 10

First Scholarship Winner

lIURRAY PARKER, aged 18, of Greytown, Wairarapa, is the first winner of the Donaghy-Telford farm scholarship which is open to youths throughout the country aged between 16J and 18J. Mr F. Haslam, assistant general manager of Donaghy’s Rope and Twine Company, Ltd, which has given the scholarship, said there had been almost 100 applicants for the award under which Murray Parker will go to the Telford farm training institute near Balclutha for a year’s theoretical and practical farm training before the company also pays his fare and provides him with pocket money to undertake a farm study period in Australia. The award is worth about $BOO to the winner.

This year’s winner, Mr Haslam said was an old boy of Nelson College. His father had been a contractor making concrete posts and other concrete products who had bought a farm of about 200 acres at Greytown about two years ago. Murray had been assisting him in the development of. the property. Keen to be a farmer himself, the

boy had arranged with his father to go away to gain extra farming experience before he won the scholarship.