Bledisloe Medal For Assistance To Farming, To Timaru Man
CHRISTCHURCH, Last Night (PA) —The Bledisloe Medal, for material assistance to farming in New Zealand, has been awarded this vear to Mr William Cunningham Stafford, of TR maru, an officer of the Department -•%. Agriculture.
In nearly 20 years’ service in South Canterbury he has helped the district to achieve a national reputation for pasture improvement, outstanding seed production and certification, general cropping, and experimental irrigation. Mr Stafford entered Canterbury Agricultural College, Lincoln, in 1924. and took a diploma ir> 1926. After a year’s general farming experience he joined the Fields Division of the Department of Agriculture at Blenheim in 1927. He was transferred to Christchurch in 1928 and worked in North Canterbury for three years. It was in 1931 that he became* the sole field officer in the new South Canterbury district of the department, and since then he has declined promotion because of his love for the work developed there.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 9 November 1949, Page 5
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