DEGREES AWARDED

Evening Star, Issue 21965, 27 February 1935, Page 2

DEGREES AWARDED

MICHAEL HIATT BAKER SCHOLARSHIP [Pm United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, February 20, The following degrees have been awarded by the executive committee of the Senate of the University of New Zealand: — Doctor of Science. —C. 31. Laws (Auckland). Doctor of Medicine. —F. 0. Bennett (Christchurch). Dr Bennett’s thesis was of such merit that the degree was awarded without further examination. Bachelor of Arts. —Averilda Margaret Gorrie. Bachelor of Commerce.—lnn Fraser M'Kenzie. Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (University of Otago).— Edmund Deter Allen, Ruth Margaret Boyd-Wilson, Robert David Morrow, Charles Barclay Lines, lan Douglas Thomson. Bachelor of Dental Surgery (University of Otago).—Percy Rimmer, Alexander John Ross, Frank Robert Shroff. Bachelor of Engineering (Canterbury University College).—Bernard John Harris (electrical and civil), Archibald Charles Bruce Smithson (civil). The vice-chancellor of the University of Bristol has advised that the_ Michael Hiatt Baker scholarship, which , was first awarded to A. J. Ockleston, of Canterbury College, in 1933, had been extended to Ockleston for a further year. This scholarship was founded in 1933 by investments transferred to the University of Bristol by Mr and Mrs Hiatt C. Baker, _of Almondsbury, Gloucester County, in memory of their son Michael, who lost his life in the earthquake at Napier on February 3, 1931. The scholarship normally is tenable for two years, but the Bristol vice-chancellor hgs power to extend it for a third year. No further award will therefore be made til} 1936*