MASSEY COLLEGE SUCCESSES

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 145, 16 December 1933, Page 5

MASSEY COLLEGE SUCCESSES

(By releeraph. —Press Association.) PALMERSTON N., This Day. Practical testimony to the value of the training received at Massey College was given at a meeting of the College Council when it was reported that' one student, M. M. Cooper, had been awarded a Rhodes Scholarship, and that Trevor G. C. Evans, a former student, now.at the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, England, had won with distinction a gold medal awarded by the Eoyal Agricultural College for .estate management and forestry, ■while L. J. Hunter, who obtained the diploma of .associate of Dairy Manufactures at the college in 1931 and is now manager of the Kelso dairy factory in Southland, had won first prize in a class for export cheese open to the Dominions and Crown colonies at the London Dairy Show. li It was stated that numerous letters of congratulation had been received by the college. •. • - • The Lord Blcdisloe prize for the leading student in his first year's work at the college in the profesional examination for the Bachelor of Agricultural Science degree, lias been awarded to G. M. Davies, Mornington, Dunedin. The Sir James Wilson medal for the leading first-year student of sheep farming has been won by T. E. Eichards, Eakaia Gorge, Canterbury. He is a brother of Miss Richards, who won the medal last year. The Farmers' Trading Company's medal for first year students in dairy farming was I won by P. Phillips, Otorohanga.