RHODES SCHOLARS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 89, 12 October 1938, Page 10

RHODES SCHOLARS

NEW ZEALAND LIST

CENTRE'S CONTRIBUTION

VICTORIA'S RECORD

The eight candidates for the 1939 Rhodes Scholarships, tenable at Oxford University for a period of three years, are to have the rule run over them by the Rhodes Scholarship Selection Committee towards the end of next month. If, following the procedure of recent years—though there was no award in 1933 —two are selected, they will be the fifty-second and fifty-third Rhodes Scholars from New Zealand.

Of the 51 Rhodes Scholars selected in New Zealand since 1904, there have been sixteen (including one shared with Victoria College) from Auckland University College, fifteen from Otago, eleven from Canterbury, nine from Victoria College (including the one shared with Auckland), and one from Massey Agricultural College, Palmerston North.

Until 1922 Victoria College had made the greatest contribution to the list, having supplied seven of the twentytwo Rhodes Scholars selected up to and including that year to six by Auckland, five by Otago, and four by Canterbury. No Victoria College student has been selected since 1928, when J. F. Platts-Mills was chosen. DISTINGUISHED STUDENTS. Victoria College may lay claim/however, to having had among its chosen Rhodes Scholars some of the most distinguished. The first New Zealand Rhodes Scholar was Dr. J. A. Thomson (Otago), who died in 1928. The second was Professor P. W Robertson (Victoria College), who is professor of chemistry at Victoria College, and who has also keenly interested himself in literature and art. Another former Victoria College student and Rhodes Scholar who is a member of the present staff of the college is Mr. H. G. Miller, the librarian, who was recently appointed a member of the Commission to inquire into the opportunities for University graduates in the Public Service. In an official report upon his work at Oxford Mr. Miller was described as "a man of unusual ability, who will do distinguished work in the future." For a time he was . director of W.E.A. classes at Timaru. The 1918 Rhodes Scholar, Mr. H. A. Mackenzie, was another Victoria College student. He saw military service and on being awarded a war scholarship resigned his Rhodes Scholarship in order to study modern languages on the Continent. He has a private school in the south of France. The deaths of Mr. A. MacDougall, 1909 Rhodes Scholar from Victoria College, and Mr. A. Hudson, also from Victoria, who was awarded the 1916 scholarship, were a very serious loss. Both were remarkable men. Before he was killed in Fritice in, 1916 Mr. MacDougall held several lectureships in Britain. Two other former Victoria College students who were selected as Rhodes scholars, Messrs. G. G. Aitken and W. G. Kalaugher (although he also attended Auckland University College) distinguished themselves on the field of sport both in this country and overseas, Mr. Aitken in Rugby. and Mr. Kalaugher in athletics. Mr. J. F. Platts-Mills, the last Victoria College student to be awarded a Rhodes scholarship, is now practising the profession of law in England. Because of the subjects they are studying and for personal reasons, a Rhodes scholarship has. not the same j attraction for all students. Instead many have concentrated with success on other subjects or have been bent on making their way as quickly as possible in the world outside. Victoria College has made its contribution to j the Judiciary—Mr. Justice Smith, Mr. 1 Justice" Kennedy, and Mr. Justice Fair, present-day Supreme Court Judges, having attended there. The AttorneyGeneral (the Hon. H. G. R. Mason) is a former Victoria College student and so is the Solicitor-General (Mr. H. H. Cornish, K.C.), who at one time was Professor of English and New Zealand (Law at tlie college. Victoria College is regarded as the chief law school |of New Zealand and from the college have gone forth others who have made their mark in the legal profession. Successes in other fields have also been won by students from Victoria College, so that the list of Rhodes scholars does not by any means tell the full story. LIST OF RHODES SCHOLARS. The list of New Zealand Rhodes Scholars is as follows:— 1904— J. A. Thomson (Otago). 1905—P. W. Robertson (Victoria). 1906— R. A. Farquharson (Otago). 1907—C. M. Gilray (Otago). 1908— S. N. Ziman (Auckland). 1909—A. MacDougall (Victoria). 1910—X. Sisam (Auckland). 1911—A. G. Marshall (Auckland). 1912—A. Wallace (Auckland). 1913— F. F. Miles (Otago). 1914— W. M. Jones (Auckland). 1915— H. S. Richards (Canterbury). 1916—A. Hudson (Victoria). 1917—A. F. Meldrum (Victoria), A. O. Ponder (Canterbury). 1918— H. A. Mackenzie (Victoria). 1919— N. M. Richmond (Canterbury). 1920— H. G. Miller (Victoria), W. T. G. Airey (Auckland), S. P. McCallum (Canterbury). 1921— H. J. Ryburn (Otago). 1922— G. G. Aitken (Victoria). 1923— E. A. Porrit (Otago). 1924— R. S. Aitken (Otago). 1925— J. A. Dunning (Auckland). 1926—M. Barak (Canterbury), C. E. Low (Canterbury). 1927—A. L. Haslam (Canterbury), W. G. Kalaugher (Auckland and Victoria). 1928— J. F. Platts-Mills (Victoria), C. A. Sharp (Otago). 1929— E. E. Bailey (Auckland), W. E. Henley (Otago). 1930—P. C. Minns (Auckland), J. C. Dakin (Otago). 1931— J. E. Lovelock (Otago), J. S. Watt (Auckland). 1932— J. M. Bertram (Auckland), G. S. Cox (Otago). 1933 —No appointment. 1934— N. Davis (Otago), I. F. G. Milner (Canterbury), M. M. Cooper (Massey). 1935— E. P. Haslam (Auckland), L. F. Moller (Otago), W. F. Monk (Canterbury).

1936— J. D. Lewis (Auckland), D. M. Davin (Otago), 1937— G. C. J. Dalton (Auckland), A. G. Bogle (Canterbury). 1938— J. N. Matson (Canterbury), G, L. Hogben (Auckland).

A severe lacerated wound to the right hand was received by Mr. J. S. Flett, of 34 Glenmore Street, a waterside worker, when handling carcasses of beef on the Pipitea Wharf at 9.25 a.m. today. He was taken to hospital by the Free Ambulance.