'VARSITY DEGREES

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 252, 23 October 1943, Page 6

'VARSITY DEGREES

STUDENTS' SUCCESS WAR PRISONERS INCLUDED (P.A.) WELLINGTON, this day. A unique feature of the most recent conferment of degrees by the University of New Zealand was that two of the degrees were conferred upon prisoners of war. J. H. Hall, M.A., LL.B.. a wellknown New Zealand journalist, and subsequently Public Relations Officer to the Second N.Z.E.F., completed his course by taking his two final subjects while in a prison camp in Germany. The papers were forwarded from New Zealand. L. D Lee, 8.C0m., had completed the bulk of his work before leaving the Dominion, but was granted, on receipt of his application, a war concession pass in his final subject. Diplomas are meantime being lodged with the next of kin, but the Lniversity is also informing the two graduates by airmail. The list of degrees conferred is as follows:— Arts.—May Cameron Mullay (University of Otago). Bachelor of Science.—Edwin Harry Driver, M.A. (Auckland University College). Bachelor of Laws.—John Herbert Hall, M.A., prisoner of war (Victoria University College). Bachelor of Commerce. — Leslie Daniel Lee, prisoner of war (Auckland University College). Bachelor of Music.—William Leslie Francis (University of Otago). Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical).—Thaddeus Ross Julian (Canterbury University College).