Mac McMeekan

He had further training at Stratford Technical High School before starting at Victoria University College in agriculture in 1927.

After a merger, he continued at the newly-formed Massey Agricultural College in Palmerston North from the following year, from where he graduated in 1932.

He remained as a lecturer at Massey and then did further study at the University of Cambridge where he gained his PhD.

He was not a good fit at the conservative college in Lincoln and was attracted to an animal research station at Ruakura in 1943.

[1] He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1958 Queen's Birthday Honours.