BLEDISLOE MEDAL
SERVICE TO AGRICULTURE. Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, Dec. 20. The Bledisioe Medal for 1932, presented by the Governor-General to an ex-student of Lincoln College who is considered to have rendered the greatest servico to the agricultural community, has been awarded this year to Mr George Rennie, of Taupiri, Waikato.
In 191 G Mr Rennie, who had been the 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. He took up a block of 500 acres and reduced it from the rough state to fine pasture. He was a pioneer in the Waikato of intensive winter feeding, and his use of fertilisers was more or less a new departure. Mr Rennie also achieved marked success in swamp reclamation. Last year his return from 215 cows averaged 300.81 b per cow.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 21, 21 December 1932, Page 2
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149BLEDISLOE MEDAL Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 21, 21 December 1932, Page 2
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