SCHOLARSHIPS IN CANADA

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29342, 22 October 1960, Page 15

SCHOLARSHIPS IN CANADA

Four Awarded To New Zealanders

The office of the High Commissioner for Canada has announced that the Canadian commonwealth scholarship and fellowship committee has completed its selection of candidates for Canadian Commonwealth scholarships and has offered awards to 104 scholars from other Commonwealth countries and territories. Four of these scholarships have been awarded to New Zealanders.

The majority of the scholarships awarded are for two years' study at the post-graduate level, and the scholars concerned have been placed at universities throughout Canada. A scholarship in medicine has been awarded to Dr. K. A. Handcock. of Wellington, who gained an M.Sc. in chemistry at the University of Otago and later graduated in medicine from the University of Otago. Dr. Handcock left New Zealand for Canada in 1958. and is on the staff of the Allen Memorial Neurological Institute at McGill University in Montreal. The scholarship will enable him to complete his training in psychiatry before returning to New Zealand. Mr M. C. H. Mouat has been awarded a scholarship in agriculture. Mr Mouat. who was born in Timaru in 1934, received a master of agricultural science degee at Canterbury Agricultural ollege in 1958. He has been working with the grasslands division of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research in Palmerston North, and will study for a doctor of philosophy degree at MacDonald Agricultural College. McGill University. Scholarships in the arts have been awarded to Miss R. E. Goodwin, of Palmerston North, and Mr J. S. Dawson. Miss Goodwin, who was awarded a master of arts degree in English at Victoria University in 1958. will study Canadian literature at the School of Graduate Studies at the University of Toronto. Mr Dawson was awarded a master of arts degree in German by the University of Otago in 1952. and also studied German literature for a year at Munster University. He will undertake postgraduate studies in German at the University of Toronto.

All of the scholarship winners are now in Canada and are pro-, ceeding with their studies. Applications are now being received by the Unversity of New Zealand for the Canadian Commonwealth scholarships for the 1961-62 academic year.