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1961 Sidney A La Roche

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DescriptionMr S. A. La Roche, chief agricultural instructor of the Canterbury Education Board, retired at the end of 1960.

He attended Auckland Grammar School, graduated B.Sc. from Auckland University, and then took a diploma in agriculture and a bachelor of agriculture degree at the College (24-25).

Returning to his old school (Auckland Grammar) he taught science for two years and then (in 1928) went to Wairarapa College where he was in charge of agriculture and taught science for 10 years.

Appointed an agricultural instructor to the Canterbury Education Board in 1938, Mr La Roche was promoted to chief 20 years ago and has held that position ever since.

There have been enormous developments in school agriculture, horticulture, and silviculture in Mr La Roche’s time.

He founded the board’s school endowment plantation scheme and there are now about 20 of them ranging from one to 30 acres.

He founded every group of the Boys’ and Girls’ Agricultural Clubs in North Canterbury (except Lincoln) and has seen their work grow to this year’s record of 14,000 animal rearing, gardening and crop-raising projects. When he began there was a handful of such projects in Christchurch city. This year there were more than 4,000.

He inaugurated the scheme under which senior district high school pupils have had a week’s residential course at Canterbury Agricultural College, Lincoln. He has been responsible for the schools' side of Arbor Day plantings which have set 30,000 native subjects in Elizabeth Park above the Sign of the Takahe.

Mr La Roche is a former president of the Summit Road Scenic Society and foundation president of the Canterbury Native Flora Society for the last six years. He is a fellow of the Royal New Zealand Institute of Horticulture.

From the Clarence Bridge down to the Haast, from the Waitaki River over to Totara Flat in Westland, thousands of youngsters have known his cheerful personality and he has imparted to these children something of love and respect for the land. He had a wish that he himself could have gone on the land but things did not work out that way. His son Ray who took the degree course at the College (51-53) has done so and in his retirement the father is spending much time with the son on the hill-country property near Eltham.
PersonS. A. La RocheOrganisationCanterbury Agricultural CollegeDate1961KeywordsCollege staffAuckland Grammar SchoolAuckland UniversityretirementVersionScanned imageItem Reference0004171Filename1961 Sidney A La Roche

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