MORE HONOURS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 85, 11 April 1933, Page 9

MORE HONOURS.

DR. "MAT." HUNTER.

DISTINGUISHED SCIENTIST.

EDUCATED IN AUCKLAND. Signal success has 'crowned the scholastic life of Dr. Matthew A. Hunter. He attended school at Mercer, was one of the brightest pupils of the Auckland Grammar School, and went to the Auckland University College, where he obtained the degrees of M.A. and D.Sc. He continued his studies abroad, and now he has been appointed head of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's department of electrical engineering and physics in Troy, New York.

Dr. Hunter has been a member of the institute faculty since 1908. After going abroa4, he studied under Sir William Ramsay at the University of London, and after obtaining the degree of Bachelor of Science from that institution,' he continued his studies with Professor Nernst in.Goettingen, Professor Moissan in Paris, and Professors Le Blanc and Haber in ICaris ruche. In 1906 he entered the research laboratory of the General Electric Company at Schenectady, and tvyo years later he became Associate Professor of Electro-Chemistry at the Rensselaer .Institute.

Widely Known. Both as investigator and consultant, Dr. Hunter is widely known. He lias made various contributions to the literature of electro-chemistry and its related subjects, and has acted as consulting engineer for numerous corporations. During the Great War he' was attached trf'the American chemical warfare service. ,

There are many ex-university students in Auckland who will remember "Mat" Hunter, who had lots of friends and was warmly congratulated when, in 1902, he carried off aji 1851 Exhibition Scholarship at the college and went to England to take advantage of it. Before that he had won, in 1896, when at the Auckland Grammar School a junior university scholarship. He played as a centre* threequarter in the Grammar School first fifteen.

' Six years ago Dr. Hunter paid a visit to Auckland for the"purpose of spending a holiday at Mercer. On that occasion he advised any ytoung men looking round for a career to "go in for metals." He expressed the opinion that there would be an age of metals, that there would be new and great developments, that research, would be enormously extended, and that if any young men wanted an interesting and profitable calling, he could not do better than take up the study of metallurgy.

"There is no placfy like home," said Dr. Hunter, who hoped that- at some future time he would return to New Zealand.

Mr. J. T. Mufl'ihill, who .is a candidate for the Mayoralty of Mount Eden, will open his campaign to-morrow evening at the Centenary Hall, Dominion Road. The address will be given under the auspices of the Mount Eden Ratepayers' Association. v •