LOST TO NEW ZEALAND

Evening Star, Issue 20317, 28 October 1929, Page 10

LOST TO NEW ZEALAND

WHAT BECOMES OF OUR BRILLIANT STUDENTS I [Special to the * Star.’] WELLINGTON, October 28. For years it has been feared that tho most promising of New Zealand University men are being lost to the country. Confirmation of this has been forthcoming as the result of investigations by the Vice-Chancellor of the University (.Professor T. A. Hunter), who has had prepared a. record of all students who have left the country to do' postgraduate work. Eortv-ffve students, over a period ot ten years have left New Zealand, and of all save one there is inlormation available. Thirty of- these students have remained overseas. . The feature of the investigation is tho somewhat'alarming tact that practically every outstanding student of science or engineering that the dominion has sent abroad to study has been lost to New Zealand. Only one of ten young scientists has returned to his homeland, that one being Dr J. S. Ycates, now a lecturer .in agricultural botany at Massey Agricultural College. Two engineering graduates out of ten have come back to New Zealand. The record of the 1851 Exhibition scholars in science is particularly striking. R. M. M inter (Auckland) is now on the chemical research staff at Woolwich Arsenal; J. C. Smith (Auckland) was at university, and now is on the staff of tho DyseonePorrin Laboratory at Oxford; R. W. B. Harman (Auckland) is chief research chemist to the Colonial Sugar Refining Company in Sydney; J. G. Myers (Wellington) is a member of tho Imperial Bureau of Entomology; R. S. Allan (Otago) is reported to be at Cambridge University; R. R. Ninimo (Otago) is lecturer in phvsics in the University of Western Australia; and G. M. Richardson (Wellington) is completing ins course for Ph.D. in London. Two postgraduate scholarships in science went to K. Cv Roberts (Otago), who is working for his PhiD in London, and is a demonstrator at King’s College, and R. G. P.onscler (Otago), who is working at HaUp. . The ten engineering scholars, all products of Canterbury University College, arc mostly in careers in England. 0. Borer is with Walter Jones, Ltd., London; R. J. Bccklcy is assistant to the resident engineer on the construction of the Tepic-Gaudalujara Railway, Mexico; J. C. Dickhison is with John Jackson and Sons London; J. M. Bishop with the General Electric Company, Sydney; D. A. Lightband with the American Wcstinghonse Company; E. B. Cocks with Preeco,- Cardew, and Ryder, London ; and li. C. H. Richardson with Metropolitan Vickers Company, England. Two—E. C. Gough and W. G. Morrison—have returned to Christchurch.

In arts, where tho position is at its best, one man ini two is lost to New Zealand. Thirteen scholars have gone abroad and five have returned to this country. Of .one student inlormation is not to*baud. , Four men who have held medical travelling scholarships since 1910 have, remained overseas, and Jour have returned to this country. The host, record is held by the travelling scholars in French, three out of lour having come back to New Zealand.