LINCOLN COLLEGE DIRECTOR

Southland Times, Issue 22969, 15 August 1936, Page 14

LINCOLN COLLEGE DIRECTOR

Former Christchurch Man Appointed A PRACTICAL CAREER The Board of Governors of Canterbury Agricultural College, Lincoln, has appointed Mr E. R. Hudson, B.Ag., B.Sc., at present superintendent of the Extension Service of the Tasmanian Department of Agriculture, as professor of agriculture and director of the college. Mr Hudson was born in Christchurch, receiving his early education at the Sydenham primary school and the Christchurch Technical College. There were 50 applications for the position, out of which four were chosen for the final appointment, says The Press. A committee of the Senate of the University of New Zealand has approved of the appointment of Mr Hudson as a professor of the university. Mr Hudson is 41 years of age. He has had considerable experience of practical farming, as, after leaving school in 1908, he spent eight years on the land, in both islands of New Zealand, in New South Wales, and in Queensland. In this period he gained experience of almost every . kind of farming, on properties ranging from small suburban dairy farms to large sheep and cattle stations.

War Service. Mr Hudson served in the Great War from 1915 to 1917, in Egypt and France. He was wounded in the first battle of the Somme and was invalided home in the early part of 1917. _ On his return he again took up farming'work, but before long he was appointed a junior teacher in the Christchurch Technical College, at the same time continuing his studies at Canterbury University College. By the end of 1922 Mr Hudson had completed the degrees of B.Ag. and B.Sc., and was appointed instructor in agriculture at the Wanganui Technical College. In 1924 he became lecturer in agriculture and senior science lecturer at the Dunedin Teachers’ Training College, positions which he held for the next three and a half years. In Dunedin Mr Hudson continued his studies in chemistry, agricultural economics, genetics, and geology. At the beginning of 1928 Mr Hudson moved to Tasmania to take up the position which he is now leaving. As superintendent, his duties included the planning and carrying out of all educational work in agriculture. Under his supervision was a staff of 16 officers engaged in field experimental work, agricultural education, and supervision. The management of properties in which the Tasmanian Government is financially interested was in the hands of Mr Hudson and his staff. Experimental Work. Mr Hudson has had to co-operate with the Tasmanian Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, and with the State Veterinary Service in experimental work on animal nutrition and animal parasitology. He has also been editor of the Tasmanian Journal of Agriculture and all other departmental publications in the state. When the Australian Institute of Agriculture was established last year he was elected first president of the Tasmanian section of the institute.

In outside activities, Mr Hudson has been president of the Northern Tasmanian Fisheries Association (Acclimatization Society). He was foundation president of the Launceston Rugby Football Club. For three years he has conducted a course in biology for students of the University of Tasmania at the Launceston Senior Technical School. He has examined for the University of New Zealand in matriculation biology, and for public examinations of the New Zealand Education Department and the University of Tasmania.