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Textile Firm’s Programme Mr M. A. Keenan, a 25-year-old graduate of the University of Canterbury, is one of three young university science graduates who will be sent overseas this year to gain specialised technological training in textiles and plastics. Together with Messrs C. K. Morrison and R. Henwood
both graduates of Victoria University of Wellington, Mr Keenan is being sent overseas as part of a company development programme inaugurated by Felt and Textiles of New Zealand, Ltd. He will take a diploma course in material science at the College of Aeronautics at Cranfield, in Britain. Mr Morrison will take a post-gradu-ate diploma in textile technology at the Bradford Institute of Technology, and Mr Henwood, who was awarded the Ngarimu V.C. scholarship for Maori students, will take a post-graduate fellowship diploma in textiles at the Gordon Institute of Technology, Geelong, Australia. The work of all three men will involve special research programmes. The courses will take from a year to 18 months to complete.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30667, 5 February 1965, Page 12
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