GOVERNOR’S MEDAL

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 66, 11 December 1930, Page 9

GOVERNOR’S MEDAL

Awarded to Mr. H. A. Knight EX-STUDENT OF LINCOLN By Telegraph—Press Association. Christchurch, December 9. Mr. H. A. Knight, a member of the Board of Governors of Lincoln College, and the first student to be enrolled at the college, has been recommended by the board for the award of a gold medal presented by the Governor-General for distinguished ex-students. The recommendation was made unanimously by the Board of Governors meeting to-day. Mr. Knight has been a successful farmer at Racecourse Hill since boyhood. He was the first farmer in Canterbury to grow solid straw Tuscan wheat, and now over 60 per cent, of the wheat grown in the province is of this variety. He is now a successful breeder of Southdown and English Leicesters, in which breeds he has valuable studs. He has been a member of the Board of Governors of Lincoln College for many years, and chairman for eleven years; he was chairman of Malvern County for fifteen years, and he has been chairman of the Board of Directors of the New Zealand Refrigerating Company for the past eleven years. Probably Mr. Knight is best known as the owner of the racehorse Limerick, and in the sporting world generally, being one of the oldest stewards of the Canterbury Jockey Club.