DEGREES AWARDED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 49, 27 February 1935, Page 15

DEGREES AWARDED.

AUCKLANDERS' SUCCESS. DOCTORATE IN SCIENCE. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.)

WELLINGTON, Tuesday.

The following degrees have been awarded by the executive committee of the Senate of the University of New Zealand: Doctor of Science, C. R. Laws, Auckland; Doctor of Medicine, P. 0. Bennett, Christchurch. Dr. Bennett's thesis wae of such merit that the degree was awarded without further examination.

The Vicc-Chancellor of the University of Bristol advised that the Michael Hiatt Baker Scholarship, first awarded to A. J. Ockleston, Canterbury College, in 1933, had been extended to him for a further veil r.

* The Michael Hiatt Baker Scholarship was founded in 1033 by investments transferred to the University of Bristol by Mr. and Mrs. Hiatt C. Baker, of Almondsbury, Gloucester, in memory of their son Michael, who lost his life in the earthquake at Napier on February 3, 1931. The scholarship normally ie tenable for two years, but the Bristol vice-chancellor has power to extend it for a third. No further award will therefore be made until 1930.

Other degrees conferred are ns follow: Bachelor of Arts, Averilda Margaret Gorrie; bachelor of commerce, lan Fraser McKcnzie; bachelor of medicine and bachelor of surgery, University of Otago, Edmund Peter Allen, Ruth Margaret Boyd-Wileon, Robert David Morrow, Onirics Barclay Innes, lan Douglas Thomson; bachelor of dental surgery, University of Otago, Percy Riminer, Alexander John Koss, Frank Kobert Shroff; bachelor of engineering, Canterbury University College, Bernard John Harris (elect civil), Archibald Charles Bruce Smitheon (civil).