A. R. Hutton

Athol Robert Hutton, BAgrSc., ONZM

Lincoln University alumnus Athol Robert Hutton, who died in Northland on 14 June 2011, had a
distinguished career in the New Zealand meat industry, acknowledged with the award of the
Bledisloe Medal in 1984 and an ONZM in 2004.

He was one of the first Canterbury Agricultural College graduates to enter the stock and station business.

Athol came to Canterbury Agricultural College (as Lincoln University was titled in those days) from Southland where his father was associated with the Southland Frozen Meat Company, lnvercargill.

He attended Gore High School from 1945 to 1950 and did his Intermediate science studies at Otago University before entering Canterbury Agricultural College in 1953 to study for a Bachelor of Agricultural Science degree.

He was capped BAgrSc in 1956