GOOD POST FOR NEW ZEALANDER

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 154, 26 March 1938, Page 7 (Supplement)

GOOD POST FOR NEW ZEALANDER

Adviser To Dairy Companies In South Australia About six years ago a young man, farm-born and bred, who had later worked in dairy factories in the Auckland province, went to Massey College to further his knowledge. He proved there a keen aud competent student, and in time joined the factory staff. Being possessed of a diploma, he applied some three and a half years ago for the managership of a North Taranaki factory. In this he was disappointed. A few months later came the offer of a factory in Northern Queensland. So, as a young married man of but 27 years, Mr. Colin (MacDonald, ex-i Massey College student, set forth on a journey of 2900 miles to Malandra, in tropical Queensland.

Eighteen months later he won for his factory the Australian export butter championship. How dairying is carried on there at all, and how quality butter can be produced, puzzles me. The summer temperature ranges from 90 to 110 degree® from October to March. (Now, at 30 years of age, Mr. MacDonald has been appointed technical adviser to a group of j South Australian butter and cheese factories, at a very substantial salary. He will reside in Adelaide, having an office there, and will travel by car to his various factory units. The writer knew Mr. MacDonald personally, and knows that what he has accomplished he owes chiefly to his own efforts. He had to make his own career. To that career, however, Massey College contributed much, and I know that Mr. MacDonald acknowledges this fact. His success is a tribute to New Zealand training. A further tribute, too, is the fact that he has been asked by the directors of the factory he now leaves to obtain a New Zealand successor. So there is an opening for some capable, adventurous, young New Zealand manager to voyage to.a faroff land and continue, the upholding of thig Dominion’s dairying reputation.