UNIVERSITY DEGREES

Greymouth Evening Star, 27 February 1935, Page 4

UNIVERSITY DEGREES

DR. BENNETT’S SUCCESS

[FEB PBESS ASSOCIATION.]

WELLINGTON, February 26

Degrees conferred by the Senate of the University of New Zealand, included two doctorates. Following are the details: —

Doctor of Science.—C. R. Laws, Auckland. Doctor of Medicine.—F. 0. Bennett, Christchurch (formerly of Greymouth). Bachelor of Arts, Auckland University College—Averilda Margaret Gorrie. Bachelor of Commerce, Auckland University College.—lan Fraser McKenzie.

Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery, University of Otago.—Edmund Peter Allen. Ruth Margaret Boyd-Wilson, Charles Barclay Innes Robert David Morrow, 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 (elect. civil): Archibald Charles Bruce Smithson (civil). Dr. Bennett’s thesis was of such merit that the degree was awarded without further examination. The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Bristol 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 Mr and Mrs Hiatt C. Baker, of Almondsbury, Gloucester County, in memory of their sou Michael, who lost his life in the earthquake at Napier on February 3, 1931. A scholarship normally is tenable for two years, but the Bristol Vice-Chancellor 1 has power to extend it for a third year. No further award will therefore be made till 1936.