Rhodes Scholars All Black And Cricketer
(New Zealand .Press Association) WELLINGTON, November 17.
The All Black C. Auckland cricketer, D. Zealand’s 1967 Rhodes Announcing this today, Mr W. O. Broad, secretary of the New Zealand Rhodes Scholarship Selection Committee, said the two would study at Oxford University for two years.
Laidlaw, aged 24, at present on tour with the All Blacks, will specialise in urban sociology, and Millener, aged 23, who has qualified for firstclass honours in his M.Sc. degree in nuclear physics at Auckland University, will study for a Ph.D. Millener, a prefect and dux at Auckland Grammar, has
, R. Laidlaw and the . J. Millener, are New Scholars. played in the Auckland Plunket Shield cricket team for the last three seasons. Laidlaw went to Otago University in 1962 from Dunedin’s King’s High School. He has received his B.A. and completed his thesis for an M.A. Mr Broad telephoned Laidlaw at Toulouse at 6.15 this morning and said he was “delighted” with the news. The selection committee interviewed five candidates at Government House yesterday under the chairmanship of the Administrator (Sir Richard Wild). Laidlaw was interviewed before he went overseas.
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31530, 18 November 1967, Page 40
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