SPECIAL AWARD.
YOUNG NEW ZEALANDER. ENGINEERING EXAMINATION. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Wednesday. 4. young New Zealander, Mr. Alexander Dennistoun-Wood, of Wellington, has been awarded a studentship examination prize by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, London. It is believed this is the first .time such an award has been made to a student in this Dominion. Notification was received recently from the institution that Mr. Dennis-toun-Wood had passed the studentship examination as well as part 2 of section A of the associate membership examination held last October. Such was the standard of his marks that the institution decided to award him a prize to take the form of books or instruments suitably inscribed. Mr. Dennistoun-Wood was educated at Wellesley College, Wellington, where he was dux. He Is at present apprenticed to the engineering trade. He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Dennistoun-Wood. and a great-nepliew of Dr. C. Lemon, of Wellington, who first generated electricity in New Zealand, and played a prominent part in designing and laying the Cook Strait cables.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 21, 26 January 1939, Page 5
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