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33: 86:. When Farrer died suddenly in 1906 a committee was created to raise funds needed to establish a Memorial Trust. On 16 October 1911, the Trust received the funds with a set of instructions, enabling it to provide research grants and scholarships to further 117:
on 3 April 1936, the birthday of William Farrer. At the end of the oration children from the Queanbeyan Intermediate High School presented Lyons with a silver medallion, which is now on display at
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now stands. Initially he planted grape vines but the conditions were not suitable, so he then decided to plant wheat. Due to weather conditions his first two harvests where damaged by
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formed a committee to create the Farrer Memorial Oration, to be given by a person with an agricultural background. The first oration was by
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William Farrer was a surveyor who turned his hand to farming in 1886 near where
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New South Wales Department of Primary Industries(Agriculture)
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Index

Farrer Medal

Australia
William Farrer
Agricultural Scientists
William Farrer
Canberra
rust
Federation
Federation of Australia
agricultural science
Frank Gallagher
Tasmanian
Australian Prime Minister
Joseph Lyons
Queanbeyan
Adolph Basser Library
NSW Department of Primary Industries
J.A. Lyons
G.L. Sutton
W.L. Waterhouse
J.A. Prescott
W.L. Waterhouse
A.T. Pugsley
E.A. Southee
R.J. Noble
H.J. Geddes
O.H. Frankel
R. N. Robertson
Prof C.M. Donald

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