MERCHANT NAVY TRAINING
Scholarship Won By Christchurch Boy
A scholarship giving a free passage from New Zealand and a cadetship covering a two-year course at H.M.S. Worcester, the Thames Nautical Training College, has been won by David W. Clarkson, the elder son of Mr and Mrs D. B. Clarkson, Dublin street.
Sixteen years of age next December, David Clarkson sat an examination last month and was awarded the scholarship by the New Zealand Shipping Company. On the completion of the course in H.M.S. Worcester, he will
serve a further three years in one of the company’s training ships. He w’as born in Christchurch and his early education was at the Cathedral Grammar School. He has been from 1955 until this week a pupil at Christ’s College.
He will leave for England in the Cumberland from Auckland next Wednesday.
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Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28321, 5 July 1957, Page 16
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