RHODES SCHOLARSHIP

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 16, 13 October 1933, Page 11

RHODES SCHOLARSHIP

Massey College Nominees

TWO STUDENTS PROPOSED

Dominion Special Service. Palmerston North, October 12. It is understood that the Professorial Board of Massey Agricultural College has nominated Messrs. W. M. Hamilton and M. M. Cooper as candidates for the 1934 Rhodes Scholarships. This is the first occasion on which the college has nominated candidates for the scholarships. Mr. W. M. Hamilton, who is 24 years of age, was educated at the Warkworth District High School, Auckland, and was dux of the school in 1925. Passing the matriculation and teachers’ D examinations, he was appointed to the position of a probationer teacher to the Auckland Education Board during 1926 and 1027. Mr. Hamilton spent the next two years farming and in 1930 took the farming course at Massey Agricultural College, and was awarded a gold medal as the leading student in the course. He took the Intermediate subjects for the degree of Bachelor of Agricultural Science at Auckland University College In 1931, and the following year returned to Massey College. He then won the Lord Bledisloe Prize for'the leading student in the secondyear course for the B. of Agr. Sc. degree. Mr. Hamilton wa-s captain of the college hockey team last year and this, is president of the Students’ Association, and is editor of the college magazine for 1934.

Mr. M. M. Cooper, who is 23 years of age, was educated at the Havelock North Primary School and the Napier Boys’ High School. After matriculating he commenced lectures at the Victoria University College for the B. of Agr. Sc. degree. He has attended Massey Agricultural College since 1929, and this year will be sitting, for the final of the Bachelor of Agricultural Science degree. Mr. Cooper has been a member of the college first fifteen for the past four years and has represented both Manawatu and Manavdienua at Rugby in the past two seasons. Mr. Cooper has been president of the Students’ Association for two years, and was joint founder and editor for three years of the students’ magazine.