1851 EXHIBITION SCIENCE SCHOLARSHIP

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 275, 14 August 1920, Page 6

1851 EXHIBITION SCIENCE SCHOLARSHIP

-» WON BY lIU. 1?-. WINTER, OP AUCKLAND. The Registrar of the New Zealand Univcrsitv has been advised by a cablegram from the English agent that the commissioners have awarded the 1851 Exhibition Science Research Scholarship for 1920 to Mr. IV. it. Winter, a graduate of Auckland University ■ College. ■ The scholarship is worth ,£2OO a year. In 1013 Mr. Winter, then a student at the Auckland Grammar School, gained a university entrance scholarship. After qualifying- for his B.Sc. degree, and gainthe senior scholarship in. chemistry in 101(1, ho enlisted, and went 1 to the front ivith a commission. After being demobilised in England he continued his research work in chemistry; at the Imperial Institute of Technology, and earned a highly-favourable report from Professor Baker. Returning to New Zealand la.il-> last year—although arrangements had been made for him to sit for 'examination in London—he, resumed his work under Professor AVorley at Auckland and at the last November examinations cained his sf.Sc. degree with Firstcla=s Honours in che.m'sh'y. In his report on 'he work of slr. Winter and of the onlv other candidate for honours in chemistry Wr. C. L. Carter, of Otago University)) the examiner, Professor Hewitt, described both srwleu'k as really first-class men, and gave it ns his opinion that if research scholarship* were to be awarded it would be well worth while tb award one to cncli cf <ihem. As if hannened. s f r. (Vtor was, not a candidate fp.- Ih" "RxWWion Scholarship. Wr. Winter's surcew is one of the most WiYlin'iV of wuvr fine achievements on the part of Np«' Zealand students rehimed from the war.