RHODES SCHOLARS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 128, 26 November 1938, Page 10

RHODES SCHOLARS

SELECTION MADE

A WELLINGTON SUCCESS

The New Zealand Rhodes Scholarship Committee, sitting, at Government House yesterday afternoon, with his Excellency the ' Governor-General

(Viscount Galway) presiding, made the following selection of scholars to take up their residence at Oxford University next year:— I. E. Berendsen, 8.A.. of Victoria College, Wellington. G, C. Weston, LL.B., of Canterbury University College. Mr. Berendsen, who is 19 years of age, entered Victoria University College in 1935. He received his primary education at the Island Bay School and! was later at Wellington College. At the end of his first university year he won the John P. Good prize for mathematics. Last year he won the senior scholarship in French, and was runnerup in Latin. He graduated Bachelor of Arts this year and sat for his M.A. degree at the recent examinations. Mr.

Berendsen has taken an active part in sport at Victoria College. He has been a member of the junior B cricket team and of the third Rugby fifteen. He has also been prominent in debating. Mr. Berendsen is a son of Mr. C. A. Berendsen, LL.M., Permanent Head of the Prime Minister's Department.

Mr. Weston, who is 23 years of age, received his secondary education at the New Plymouth Boys' High School and entered Canterbury University College in 1935. He took his LL.B. degree last year, and sat for the LL.M. degree at the recent examinations. He has been admitted as a barrister, of the Supreme Court, and is in the office of Weston, Ward, and Lascelles, Christchurch. A son of Mr. Walter Weston, managing director of the "Taranaki Herald," New Plymouth, and a nephew of Mr. C. H. Weston, K.C., Wellington, he has taken an active part in sport and college life and is a first lieutenant in the Canterbury Fortress Battalion. Mr. Weston proposes to seek admission to the English Bar through the Inner Temple, London, and later to return to New Zealand and enter into practice.

The selection of Mr. Berendsen gives Victoria College its ninth success, including one shared with Auckland, since the Rhodes Scholarships were first awarded in 1904. The last selection from the college was in 1928, when Mr. J. F. Platts-Mills was chosen.