OTAKI SCHOLAR
SCOTTISH LAD VISITS CANTERBURY
This year’s Otaki Scholar, W. D. Mackay, is being given every opportunity to learn about Christchurch and Canterbury. He received the now traditional welcome of being piped up the drive on his arrival at St. Andrew’s College on Wednesday morning and was then received by the principal (Mr L. W. Stewart) and the school as a whole. Formal calls were paid on the Mayor of Christchurch (Mr R. M. Macfarlane. M.P.) and the manager of the New Zealand Shipping Company, which provides the passage from the United Kingdom to the scholarship winner. After that Mackay was shown something of Christchurch and yesterday he went into the country of Canterbury. This award is made to a pupil of Robert Gordon’s College, Aberdeen, to commemorate the gallant action of the Otaki against the German raider Moewe in 1917 in the Atlantic and its master. Captain Bisset Smith, who went down with his ship, and was awarded the Victoria Cross posthumously. Mackay will return to Britain in the Rangitoto and take up studies in medicine at Aberdeen University.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27112, 7 August 1953, Page 6
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