New wildlife director
The leader of the expedition which caught the first kakapo in Fiordland in 1962, Mr Ralph Adams, has been appointed director of the Wildlife Service.
He replaces Dr Gordon Williams, who has taken up a position as professor of agricultural zoology at Lincoln College. Mr Adams has been deputy director of the service for the last seven years. He joined it in 1955 as the first wildlife trainee and has worked in almost every district in New Zealand, with special experience in freshwater fisheries, game management, and protected fauna. He is the service’s fifth for the Nature Conservation Council before becoming deputy director.
Mr Adams was educated at New Plymouth Boys’ High School and Wellington Technical College. He is the services fifth
director. The others were Major G. H. Yerex, Mr Henry Kelly, Mr Frank Newcombe, and Dr Williams.
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Press, 11 August 1979, Page 9
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