SCHOLARSHIP AWARD

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 198, 19 May 1936, Page 8

SCHOLARSHIP AWARD

New Zealander to Go to Bristol EARTHQUAKE RECALLED Mr. F. R. Meldrum, o£ the Chemistry Department of the University of Otago, has been selected by the vicechancellor of the University of Bristol as Michael Hiatt Baker Scholar. The announcement of the appointment was cabled to the New Zealand University authorities by their agent in London. The Michael Hiatt Baker Scholarship was founded in 1933 by investments transferred to the University of Bristol by Mr. and Mrs. Hiatt C. Baker, of Almondsbury (County of Gloucester). The scholarship is a memorial to their son, whose name it bears, and who lost bis life in the collapse of the old Masonic Hotel, Napier, in the Hawke’s Bay earthquake of February 3, 1931. At the time it was announced the scholarship was stated to be one in perpetuity of £2OO, to be held at Bristol University by post-graduate students from New Zealand. Mr. Meldrum, who for the past two years has been assistant lecturer in chemistry at the University of Otago, was born at Oumaru. He received his education at Dunedin, where he was dux of the Otago Boys’ High School. He is a graduate of the University of Otago, having gained the degree of Master of Science with first-class honours in chemistry. Mr. Meldrum intends taking up the scolarship in October.