RHODES SCHOLARS.
SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATES. (Per Press Association). WELLINGTON, November 22/ Sitting at Government House this afternoon the New Zealand selection committee appointed by the Rhodes Trustees—the Governor-General (Viscount Galway), the Chief Justice (Sir Michael Myers), Major-General Sir Andrew Russell, the Chancellor of the University of New Zealand (Dr. the Hon. J. A. Hanan), the chairman of the Academic Board of the University (Dr. j. Hight, C.M.G.), Dr. A. L. Haslam and Mr S. N. Ziman—chose from II nominations two 1941 Rhodes Scholars.
The successful candidates were: Alan Stewart, Massey Agricultural College. Jack Seddon Rumbold, Canterbury University College.
Jack Seddon Rumbold, who was born at lleefton on March 5, 1920, attended the Elmwood School and went to St. Andrew’s College in 1933. He. was in the first eleven for three years and the first fifteen for two. He took a prominent part in all sport, and in 1936 he was a school prefect, a platoon sergeant in the Cadet Corps, pianist in the orchestra, and leader of the school debating team. He captained the' first eleven this year. Last year Mr Rumbold took his third section of the LL.B. degree, and in 1938 he won the Butterworth prize ffir Roman law and took part in the Joynt School debate. This year he is completing his LL.B. He is a committeeman and assistant-treasurer of the Law Students’ Society, and treasurer of the Dialectic Society. He also sang in the Christchurch Centennial Festival Choir.
Mr Rumbold aims at the degree of Bachelor of Civil Law or Doctor of Philosophy in Law.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 37, 23 November 1940, Page 2
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