RHODES SCHOLAR FOR 1916

Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 105, 30 October 1915, Page 3

RHODES SCHOLAR FOR 1916

(IT TET-FGRAPH— t>RESB ASSOCIATION.) AUCKLAND, 29th October. The Professorial Board of the Auckland University has nominated Mr. F A. Airey, 8.A., as a candidate for the Rhodes Scholarship, 1916. Mr. Airey, who has had a brilliant scholastic career, was a candidate last year. He is 23 years of age, and a son of the late Mr. W. H. Airey, Inspector of Schools. He gained a Junior National Scholarship, and entered the Auckland Grammar School. At present he is a teacher there. He combines high scholastic ability with considerable athletic skill. [Victoria College Professorial Board has nominated Mr Athol Hudson, a sergeant id E Company, Bth Reinforcements (son of the late Dr. Hudson, of Tapawera, Nelson, and nephew of Messis. W. B. Hudson and G. V. Hudson, of Wellington). The Canterbury College candidate is Mr. Arthur Ponder No nomination has yet been received from Otago. The Board which is to select a New Zealand Rhodes scholar for 1916 will meet in Wellington in December.]

By the sinking of the transport Royal Edward by a submarine in the JEgean, and the loss of 1000 lives, "a proud tradition of the British Navy is broken at last," says the Star. ""For over a year troopships had been passing in a daily stream between thiß country and Frahce, while others brought to Europe contingents from the remotest lands of the Empire j and such was the vigilance of the Fleet that the enemy had failed for all his efforts to take the life of a single British soldier That record no longer stands ; and indeed the wonder is not that ft should have been broken at last, but that it endured so long." Mr. J. Robertson Scott on Bural Awakening; — There cannot be such an awakening without the nation getting to understand as it has never done before that a rural life and industry, as healthy and efficient as it is possible to make it, is the State's reservoir of wellbeing, economical, physical, spiritual. It is only by creating wealth that we create the means to pay for work. The more wealth we create the more work we can pay for — Mr. Harold Cox. "Tho Foreign Office does well to call attention to the kind of law administered in the German Prize Courts," says the Pall Mall. "It might be summed up by saying that those tribunals are open to conviction of a cargo's innocence, but would like to see the evidence which could convince them. As the Foreign Office observes with regard to tho decisions at Hamburg on tho Marie and the Batavier V., the distinction between absolute and conditional contraband is in effect abolished by German 'justice.' It is as well that we had not tied our own hands more completely by mock Conventions with an enemy who would have laughed both at the spirit ftnd the letter «C_h.iß undftKf.flMnJML'*