FELLOW AND MEMBER ELECTED

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 105, 28 January 1938, Page 10

FELLOW AND MEMBER ELECTED

Institute Of Agriculture ANNUAL CONFERENCE AT CHRISTCHURCH By Telegraph—Press Association. Christchurch, January 27. The election of an Honorary Fellow and an Honorary Overseas Member was completed at. the annual conference of the New Zealand Institute of Agriculture. The honorary New Zealand Fellow is Mr. Thomas Horton, Pukekura Park, New Plymouth, and the overseas member Sir William Wright Smith, Edinburgh.

Mr. Horton has been engaged in horticulture since 1881. He introduced Delicious and Senator apples, in addition to other strains. He has been superintendent at Pukekura Park and Brooklands Park, and established a sanctuary for New Zealand ferns as well as an aboretum for New Zealand trees. He holds the Diploma of the Royal Horticultural Society and has won many gold medals in first-class competition. Sir William Wright Smith is King’s Botanist in Scotland. He is Regius Keeper of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh, and Regius Professor of Botany at Edinburgh University. He formerly held botanical positions in India, and has published works on the botany o£ India and China. Officers Elected. The conference of the institute, over which Mr. F. S. Pope, Wellington, presided, elected the following officers: President, Mr. F. S. Pope; vice-presi-dents, Messrs. T. L. Lancaster (Auckland), T. Horton (Taranaki), G. W. Corner (Hawke’s Bay), P. Black (Palmerston North), J. G. Mackenzie (Wellington), Sir Theodore Rigg (Nelson), Messrs. J. A. McPherson (Canterbury), D. Tannock (Otago), Sir R. A. Anderson (Southland); executive committee, Mrs. 'Knox Gilmer, Professor H. B. Kirk, Dr. W. R. B. Oliver, Dr. H. H. Allan (honorary botanist), Messrs. A. H. Cockayne, J. A. Campbell, T. Waugh, W. K. Dallas, W. C. Hyde, W. S. Mason, T, C. Brash, H. J. Poole, F. J. Shanks, A. McMillan, and E. Hutt; honorary auditor, Mr. J. L. Arcus. It was decided to ask the Government to give serious consideration to the early establishment of a school of horticulture, which has already been recommended.