LATE MESSAGES

Greymouth Evening Star, 7 September 1938, Page 2

LATE MESSAGES

ARMY OFFICERS. WELLINGTON, September 7. Under the policy of taking full advantage of the facilities which _ are available for the higher education of the Dominion’s regular army officers, Major D. 11. W. H. Donaldson, of the TTew Zealand Staff Corps, has been nominated to fill the next vacancy allotted to New Zealand at the Staff College. Camberley, England. The-'duration of this course has're- 1 cently been reduced from two years to one. After completing the term at Camberley. Major Donaldson will spend two years at tffe new college for higher training at Minley Manor, near Aidershot. Major Donaldson is at; present Adjutant and Quarter-master-General of the Northern District; He will leave for England at the end of this year. •

Captain ,T. A. Clachan, New Zealand Staff Corps, Area Officer at Hamilton, will go to Duntroon, Australia, later this year, to relieve Captain (local Major) J. I. Brooke, New Zealand Staff Corps. Captain Clachan will spend three years abroad.

NUFFIELD SCHOLARSHIP

WELLINGTON, Sept. 7

Dr. M. A. Falconer of Dunedin, has been nominated by the University of New Zealand for a Nuffield Fellowship, which entitles him to three years' medical study at Oxford. He is the son of Dr. A. R. Falconer, Medical Superintendent, Ashburn Hall, Dunedin, and is a graduate of the Otago Medical School. For the past four years, he has been doing postgraduate medical work in England, and United States, and recently finished an appointment at the Mayo clinic. He returned from America last week.

Prof. T. A. Hunter, vice-chancellor of the New Zealand University, who returned from Sydney to-day, after attending a conference of vice-chancel-lors at Melbourne, where details regarding the Nuffield Fellowships wore discussed, said that two Fellowships wore available each year to South Africa. Australia ami New Zealand. Tlie conference had to work out a scheme by which (lie best men would be available. It was agreed this year that Australia and New Zealand .should make nominations. One of the conditions of a Fellowship is that the successful nominee must return to his country at the expiration of three years and remain there at least live. If New Zealand's nomination were cacepted Dr. Falconer will leave for Oxford next month.