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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32315, 5 June 1970, Page 10

The author of the accompanying article is Mr D. G. Reynolds, who has been a farm advisory officer of the Department of Agriculture at Fairlie for the last 12) years. Later this month he will take up a new position in Northland in charge of the Whangarei office of the department and other subsidiary offices in the district. Born in Canada, Mr Reynolds arrived in New Zealand at the age of 11, went to primary and secondary school in Gisborne and then trained as a rural field cadet and gained a diploma of valuation and farm management from Lincoln College in 1951. He joined the Department of Agriculture the next year at Oamaru and remained there until 1957 when he spent a year overseas, including a period in Britain as a guest of the British Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. He went to Fairlie at the end of that year. While in his present position he has been interested in the development of the downlands and high country, in developments in sheep breeding and fairly recently in popularising grain feeding of stock.