MASSEY COLLEGE

Southland Times, Issue 22201, 19 December 1933, Page 6

MASSEY COLLEGE

SUCCESSES OF STUDENTS. (Per United Press Association.) Palmerston North, December 16. 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, who was now at the Royal Agricultural College, Winchester, England, had won with distinction the gold medal awarded by the Royal Agricultural College for State management in forestry, while L. J. Hunter, who obtained the Diploma of the Associate of Dairy Manufacturers at the College in 1931 and was now manager of the Kelso Dairy Factory (Southland) had won first prize in the class for export cheese open to the Dominion and Crown Colonies at the London Dairy Show. It was stated that numerous letters of congratulation had been received by the college. Lord Bledisloe’s prize for the leading student in first year’s work at the college in the professional examination for Bachelors of Agricultural Science has been awarded to G. M. Davies, of Mornington, Dunedin; Sir James Wilson’s medal for the leading first-year student in sheep farming went to T. R. Richards, Rakaia Gorge, Canterbury. The latter is a brother of Miss Richards, who won the medal last year. The Farmers’ Trading Company’s medal for the first-year student in dairy farming was awarded to P. Phillips, Otorohanga.