BLEDISLOE MEDAL.
SERVICE TO AGRICULTURE. THLS YEAR’S AWARD. CHRISTCHURCH, December 29. The Bledisloe Medal for 1932, presented by the Governor-General for the ex-student of Lincoln College who is considered to have rendered the greatest service to the agricultural community, has been awarded this year to Mr. George Rennie, of Taupiri, Waikato. In 1916, Mr. Rennie, who had been first agricultural instructor employed by the Canterbury Education Board, and later a member of the Board of Governors of Lincoln College and Canterbury College, went to Taupiri, taking up a block of 509 acres. He reduced it from the rough state to a fine pasture and was the pioneer in the Waikato of intensive winter feeding and his use of fertilisers was more or less a new departure. He also achieved marked success m swamp reclamation. Last year on tUr “ from 215 c<ws averaged 300.81 b. per cow.—(P.A.)
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Wairarapa Age, 21 December 1932, Page 5
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146BLEDISLOE MEDAL. Wairarapa Age, 21 December 1932, Page 5
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