Judged Outstanding

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30895, 30 October 1965, Page 16

Judged Outstanding

New Zealand’s first three “outstanding young men” have been chosen - by a panel of judges headed by the Ombudsman (Sir Guy Powles). The awards were presented to Peter Heremla Anaru, of Rotorua, Albert William Lliley, of Auckland, and Peter David Mulgrew, of Auckland, at the New Zealand Jaycees’ national convention in Invercargill last evening. There were more than 200 nominations for the awards, and a short list of 75 went forward to the national selection panel. The final seven were interviewed in person. In an address Sir Guy Powles said the day spent chatting to the seven was, the panel members felt, one of the most rewarding they had spent for many a year. “We are com-

pletely agreed on the result, difficult though the task was.” Mr Anaru is 35, a schoolteacher, holds the rank of major in the territorials, and had three years’ active service in Malaya from 1957 to 1960. He was appointed first assistant of the Rotorua Intermediate School this year, and is head of the reading department. He is associated with Rugby, softball, indoor basketball and athletics. Dr. Liley is also 35, and since 1958 has been full-time research officer with the New Zealand Medical Research Council attached to the University of Auckland’s postgraduate department of obstetrics and gynaecology. His work on transfusing blood to infants before birth, when they were likely to be lost through anaemia, is said

to have opened new fields of treatment of pre-natal infants. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand. Mr Mulgrew is an Auckland businessman, aged 37. He has combined a Naval career with interests in other fields, and is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and an experienced alpinist. He accompanied Sir Edmund Hillary on his traverse from Scott Base to the South Pole and has been awarded the British Empire Medal and the Polar Medal. In 1960, lent to the British-New Zealand expedition to the Himalayas, he suffered frostbite which necessitated the amputation of both legs. He is now an executive with an electronics firm, and manager of its tele-communica-tions division.