BLEDISLOE MEDAL
AGRICULTURAL AWARD. MR G. H. HOLFORD’S SUCCESS. (Per United Press Association.) Christchurch, December 10. Mr G. H. Holford, B. Ag. Sc., has this year been awarded the Bledisloe Medal within the award of the Board of Governors of Canterbury Agricultural College. It was announced at a meeting of the board to-day. A graduate of the college, Mr Hofford has taken a prominent part in the development of agriculture in New Zealand. He will shortly leave Christchurch for the North Island, and many tributes have been paid to his pioneering work in experimental irrigation in the province. For 17 years Mr Holford was chairman of the Rural Education and Agricultural Development Committee of the Canterbury Progress League. He formed a Soil Improvement Committee that led to the present scheme of fertilizer and crop improvements by the Department of Agriculture and research institutions. J
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Southland Times, Issue 22761, 11 December 1935, Page 5
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144BLEDISLOE MEDAL Southland Times, Issue 22761, 11 December 1935, Page 5
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