WIDESPREAD STUDENTS

Evening Star, Issue 22209, 11 December 1935, Page 8

WIDESPREAD STUDENTS

OTAGO SCHOOL OF MINES WORLD-WIDE MOVEMENTS The movements of former students of the Otago School of Mines during 1935 are traced by Dr Andrew (dean of the Mining Faculty) in his annual report. In the following; record of the changes of positions or doings of interests of the students, the date given is that of the student’s last year at the school: — 1887.—T. Butement is doing consulting work at Kalamunda, W.A. 1892.—P. Fitzgerald was in London during the year. He is now consulting engineer and director for Mount Magnet Gold Mines Ltd., and general manager for Youanmi G.M. Ltd., both in W.A. 1896.—J. W. Mellor has resigned from the post of principal of the North Staffordshire Technical College, and* is living at Stoke oh Trent, < England. 1899. —E. A. Delautour is superintendent of the New Guinea Goldfields Ltd. 1900. —G. A. Gow is.now mill superintendent for Ashanti Goldfields Corporation', West Africa, _ _ -' - • 1900. —G. W. Thomson is in Fiji reporting on properties for London principals. ' . 1901. —T. O. Bishop, who trained through mining to his present post as secretary of the New Zealand Employera’ Federation,, represented New Zealand at the International Labour Conference at Geneva. 1904.—R. A. Farquharson, m charge of the Geological and Agricultural Department in British Somaliland, has in hand a three-year boring project for developing water supplies. 1904.—A. G. Spencer is promoting and developing properties on the Far East Rand, South Africa. 1906. —A. G. Macdonald is on leave in England, from the F.M.S-, where he has been acting senior warden of the Mines Department. 1906. —A. J. Walker managed at BellHooper, Cromwell, for a short time, and is now at Bendigo Rise and Shine. 1907. F. W. Thomas is at Insu, W es t Africa. 1909.—C. W. Gudgeon is general manager for the Costerfield Mines, Victoria, on* behalf of the Gold Exploration and Finance Co. of Australia. 1912.—A. E. Horn has returned from leave to his post as manager of Naraguta, Northern Nigeria. 1912.—A. R. Rutherford is with Alluvial Tin Ltd., boring placers in New South Wales and Queensland. ; 1914.—5. G. Secular was awarded a jubilee medal, in recognition of his services to the New Zealand Territorial Forces, .in which he ranks lieutenantcolonel. „ . ~ XT 1915—E. W. Green is on the New Zealand staff of the Australian Selection Trust Ltd. ; ... 1919. J. H. Williamson is now with Investigations Ltd. and British Developments Ltd.;, investigating placer and reef propositions in New Zealand. 1920. —W. H. J. Cropp was on leave in Tasmania from Japan, where he is mill superintendent for Toys Mines Ltd. ... f 1920.—L. V. Ellis is now manager of Sulphide Gold (Junction Reefs) at Lundhurst, New South Wales. 1920. R. F. Landreth has gone to Australia! • . . ■ - 1921. H. G. Gordon is mine manager at Blackwater Mines, Waiuta. 1921. E. E. A. Leach, sectional manager Transvaal Gold Mines Estates, and part-time lecturer Witwatersrand Technical College, is now m New Zealand on leave. . 1921 —N- Malcolm, manager of the Rustenburg Platinum Mines, Transvaal, was in New Zealand on leave. ,■ _ . 1923 —J. T. Samuel has.gone_to luji. 1924.—M. D. Calder is at Kirkland Lake. Ontario. _ , 1924. W. H. A. Penseler is en-gineer-in-charge of placer testing a Lowburn, Central Otago, on behalf of Austral IVlalay *Fixi * , ■ | 1925. T. (3. H. Hewitt is at Kirkland Lake, Ontario. 1925—L. J. M'Cluggage was •on leave in New Zealand, from Siam. 1925. —A. W. Turner is in charge at Glen Innes, New South Wales, for Gold Mines of Australia Ltd. 1926. S. W. M Intosh is at Kirkland Lake, Ontario. . ■ 1927. —I. D. Cameron is manager ot the Boulder Perseverance, Fimiston, W A 1929.—K. F. H. Walker is underground manager for Lancefield (W.A.) Gold Mines. . . 1929. —G. J. Williams is in the Colonial Office Service, Chief Geologist for the Tanganyika Territory, Africa. 1930. A. R. Evans is engineer to the Unemployment Board at Cromwell. 1932. D. D. Smart came to New Zealand on leave from New Guinea, and is now in Australia. 1933. R. Bryco has been engineerin- charge of placer boring'on tho West Coast, New Zealand, on behalf of Alluvial Tin (Aust.). and hag recently been sent to New South Wales and Queensland. 1933. H. Service, doing post-gradu-ate work at the Royal School of Mining, read a paper before the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy on the ironproducing district of Bilbao, North Spain. 1934. —J. M. Alexander bored placers at Murchison, New Zealand, for Burmah Malay Tin, and was transferred to Briseis, Tasmania, as a staff cadet. 1934.—G. A. Jupp is boring at Murchison, New Zealand, for Burmah Malay Tin. 1934. —G. H. Macduff is staff cadet at Mount Isa, Queensland. 1934. —J. B. Mackie has gone to Perak, F.M.S., investigating placer and other propositions. 1934.—H. F. C. Nevill is staff cadet at Mount Isa, Queensland. 1934. G. S. Cabot is boring placers at Beachwood, Victoria. 1935. —K. A. Beatson is at Boulder Perseverance, W.A. )■ 1935.—W. J. Bolitho is at Blackball Mine, West Coast. 1935.—A. G. Palmer is staff cadet at Waihi, with the Martha G.M. Company. 1935.—N. Pratt has gone to Fiji, on the geological staff of Dr Loftus Hill. 1935.—W. A. Pullar is on placer • testing work, on the staff of Clutha River Gold Dredging Company, Central Otago. 1935.—A. M. Quennell is on the Soil Survey in Hawke’s Bay, on tho Staff of the New Zealand Geological Survey. 1935.—G. E. Thomson is staff cadet in the mill of New Guinea Goldfields Ltd. The following have been transferred from associateship to membership in the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy (Lend.): —1907, F. W. Thomas. The following have been transferred from studentship to. associateship;— 1925, T. C. H. Hewitt; 1926, P. O. Shiel; 1927, I. D. Cameron; 1928, L. Hunter; 1929, G. J. Williams; 1931, L. O’N. Thomson. Sir Colin Fraser was not at tho Otago School, but ho was at tho Thames School of Mines, under Professor Emeritus Park, before the latter came south. Sir has always been a friend of the mining student and the staff cadet, and the school congratulates him most heartily on the honour of knighthaocU i >