ANIMAL HUSBANDRY
APPOINTMENT TO CHAIR
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, October 12. The second chair in agriculture at the Canterbury Agricultural College, which has been vacant since the retirement of Professor F. W. Hilgendorf, has been filled by the appointment of Dr. C. P. McMeekan, B.Agr.Sc, N.Z., Ph.D., Cantab., who has been appointed Professor of Agriculture (animal husbandry). Dr. McMeekan spent his early years on a farm, and graduated B.Agr.Sc. at Massey College in 1931, being then appointed assistant lecturer in dairy husbandry. In 1936 he went to England to further his research activities, and widen his experience. He accepted an offer of facilities for research from Dr. John Hammond, F.R.S., at the Animal Research Institute, University of Cambridge, and completed two years' post-graduate work there, being awarded his Ph.D. for a report on specialised work on animal nutrition and physiology.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 90, 13 October 1939, Page 13
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