Off To Philippines

Press, Volume CX, Issue 32321, 12 June 1970, Page 8

Off To Philippines

This young couple, Mr and Mrs J. G. Brown, will leave Christchurch at the •week-end on the first stage of a journey that will take them to Mindanao in the Philippines for two years. Mr Brown, who completed the diploma of agriculture course at Lincoln College last August, will join the staff of the Southern Christian College in Midsayap in the north Cotabato district in Mindanao, where he will teach animal husbandry, assist in the running of a pig and poultry laboratory and also do farm advisory work in the area. Mrs Brown may also be involved in work in the rural area. The couple are going under the auspices of the National Council of Churches. The headmaster of the school to which they are going was in New Zealand late last year at an international youth conference and he then indicated to the council that he was looking for someone to fill this position. Mr Brown, who was born in Wanganui, was brought uo on a mixed farm at Pleasant Point in South

Canterbury where he went to primary school. He became head prefect at Timaru Boys’ High School and played in the Ist XV at high school for three years. Afterwards he worked on the home farm for two years before going to Lincoln and for two seasons represented South Canterbury at Rugby in the full-back position. Since he has been at Lincoln he has done six months’ work in the dairy industry in the North Islands and since leaving college has been working at the Crop Research Division at Lincoln. Mrs Brown was born in Oarnaru and went to school at Craighead Diocesan College and has also attended Otago University. Mr and Mrs Brown will travel to Moen Island in the eastern Carolines by a ship under charter to the Fletcher Construction Company, which is building an hotel there. In the Carolines they will meet Mrs Brown’s father, Dr Ashley Aitken, who is working in the Truk district, and her sister, Penelope. They will then fly on to Guam and Manila on their way to their new job.