FARMERS GRADUATE

Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 223, 16 June 1932, Page 13

FARMERS GRADUATE

Massey College Ceremony DIPLOMAS PRESENTED Dominion Special Service. Palmerston North, June 15. The Massey Agricultural College graduation ceremony was held at the college this morning when the diplomas and degrees won during the year were conferred on the winners by Professor T. A. Hunter, Vice-Chancellor of the University of New Zealand. Sir George Fowlds, chairman of the College Council, presided, and associated with him were Professor Peren, principal, Professor Riddet. Dean of Dairying. Mr. Win, Perry, and Mr. Norton Francis. Sir George Fowlds said the year had been a trying one for the college as well as being a difficult one for people throughout the world. Good progress had been maintained in the research work at the college, and during the year a considerable amount of valuable information had been given out to the farmers of the Dominion. The college was gratified at the increased number of students, especially in the dairy and sheep farming courses. Many of the present students were brothers of past students, and this showed that the value of the work done at the college was recognised and appreciated. There was an increasing recognition of the value of agricultural training and the application of science to agriculture. In concluding, Sir George said the college had now firmly established itself in the good-will of the community, and there was a fuller recognition of its assistance to the agricultural industry. Professor T. A. Hunter said depressions had been experienced away back in history, and politicians had then thought that the future of the British Empire was doomed. By the application of new ideas to industry, prosperity was brought back again: this was one of the things that was required to-day to bring the country-back to prosperous days. Agriculture was the most important industry to which new ideas should be applied, for it was the industry on which hinged prosperity. The following is the list of diplomas and degrees:— Doctor of Science.—Gordon Herriot Cunningham. - Master of Agricultural Science.—Geoffrey Thorp (in absentia). Bachelor of Agricultural Science. — John Dunstan Atkinson. Campbell McMeekan. Frank Sydenham, John Hamilton Tetley. Diploma of Associate in Dairy Manufactures (buttermaking option).—Gordon Fleming Bain, Bowden Alexander Baird, John Richard Cossil. William Eden Culley, Stanley Graham Finch, Arthur Clive Foster, William Albert Reid, George Leslie Reisterer, William Mansfield Smith, Jack Valder, Lionel Thomas Turner. Diploma of Associate in Dairy Manufactures (cheesemaking option) : Erie Brazendale, Albert William Davey. Leslie James Hunter. Hughie James Meharry. Archibald Moyes, William Duncan Rodger. Certificate in Sheep Farming (1931). —Alan Graham Balfour. Raymoxid Charles Brandon, Edward Augustus Bullmore,, George Kirkwood Carpenter, Wallace Shrimpton. L. V. Steele. Certificate in Dairy Farming (1931). — Keith Francis Robertson. Other awards presented were as follow :— National Dairy Association’s Medal (diploma dairy course). —Dux first year class: G. T. Allcock. Second year class : T. Russell. , Third year class: S. G. Finch. Dairy Factory Managers’ Association Medal (dairy diploma course).Cheesemaking: L. J. Hunter. Runnerstrum Medal for Buttermaking.—S. G. Finch. Sir James Wilson’s Medal for Sheepfarming Dux.—E. A. Bullmore. Farmers’ Trading Company’s Medal for Dux of Dairy Farming Course. —K. F. Robertson.