ADVANCED STUDY IN U.S.

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27269, 9 February 1954, Page 10

ADVANCED STUDY IN U.S.

Grants To Chemist And Engineer DR. A. T JOHNS AND MR J. W. RIDLEY (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, February 8. Two New Zealanders, one a chemist and the other an engineer, have been awarded fellowships for advanced study and travel in the United States under the Dominion Civil Service Fellowships scheme. They are Dr. Alan Tutton Johns, chief chemist of the Grasslands Division of'the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Palmerston North, and Mr John William Ridley, assistant designing engineer at the Ministry of Works. The fellowships were inaugurated in 1925 by the Commonwealth Fund, an American-endowed foundation. Five Dominion Civil Service Fellowships are awarded annually to outstanding men and women holding Public Service appointments in New Zealand and under the Commonwealth and State Governments of Australia.

The fellowships are tenable for a period of from nine to 15 months. Dr. Johns graduated M.Sc. from Canterbury University College in 1939, and Ph.D. from Cambridge in 11)48. He served overseas with the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force, and also served as liaison officer with the Australian Army in scientific matters. He is married, with four children. Mr Ridley graduated B.Sc. and B.E. (Civil) from Canterbury College in 1941. He was a Rhodes Scholar in 1945. He graduated M.A. with honours in engineering science at Cambridge in 1947. He served with' the Divisional Engineers in the Pacific and the Middle East from 1941 to 1946.