NEW APPOINTMENT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 201, 25 August 1937, Page 3

NEW APPOINTMENT.

COLONIAL SERVICE. MR. W. M. MILLIKEN. BRILLIANT CAREER. i Air. W. M. Milliken, of Auckland, has been notified, by the Governor-General, Lord Galway, that he has been appointed to the British Colonial Service in Nigeria, Africa. Mr. Milliken, who is managing clerk to Baxter, Shrewsbury and Milliken, barristers and solicitors, has a brilliant scholastic and athletic record.

He was a member of the University College first fifteen, 1930-33. He gained a University College blue and was an Auckland Rugby representative from 1931 to 1933 and a New Zealand University representative in 1933. He has been secretary of the University Football Club and has held important executive posts on university societies, being a member of the executive of the Students' Association in 1933 and vicepresident of the Law Students' Society in the same year. Mr. Milliken first attended the Te Arolia District High School and afterwards spent four years at the Morrinsville District High School. At King's

College he gained the junior athletic championship and became a member of the first fifteen in his second year. Later he won the senior athletic championship, became captain of the first fifteen, company sergeant-major in the school cadet corps, and a school prefect. In his postmatriculation year Mr. Milliken won the Foster prize for the best all-round boy in the school. He left the college with a university bursary. After four years of university work he was awarded the Hugh Campbell Scholarship for the student obtaining the best average over a four-year LL.B. course. In 1931 he graduated LL.B., and in the following year LL.M. He was admitted a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of New Zealand in 1933. In 1935 Mr. Milliken was a member of the Patea Surf Life-saving team which won the West Coast championship, while in the following year he was a member of the Pilia Surf Life-saving team which won the Auckland provincial cllain pionship. He was awarded the bronze medallion and surf medallion for life saving and surf swimming in 1935. He is a member of the Auckland Junior Chamber of Commerce and the Auckland branch of the Junior National League. After leaving school Mr. Milliken was employed as law clerk to Mr. Alan M. Hume, barrister and solicitor of Auckland, and later as clerk with Baxter, Shrewsbury and Milliken. In 1933 he was appointed to the position of solicitor clerk to Mr. F. W. Hamel, solicitor of I'atea, and early in 1934 rejoined Baxter, Shrewsbury and Milliken as managing clerk.