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THE Agricultural Departments and the Commonwealth Relations Office announce that Mr. J. A. Young, assistant agricultural adviser to the High Commissioner for the United Kingdom in Ottawa, is returning to Northern Ireland in April at the end of his period of duty in Canada. His place will be taken by Dr. W. F. Darke, who will have the rank of secretary (agriculture) in the High Commissioner's office. Dr. Darke entered the University of London in 1930, taking his B.Sc.(Econ.) degree in 1933. He was awarded a research scholarship by the Agricultural Research Council and worked at Oxford and at the University of California. In 1936 he was awarded the degree of Ph.D.(Econ.) (London) and a year later that of B.Litt. by the University of Oxford for part of his work on the history of the smallholdings movement. Dr. Darke was appointed to the staff of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries in May 1938 as a junior economist. He was seconded to United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration in August 1944, and in 1947 took up duty with the Food and Agriculture Organisation ; he returned to the Ministry of Agriculture in January last year.
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Darke, W. British Agricultural Advisers in North America :. Nature 163, 393 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163393b0
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