FORMER RUNANGA MAN’S IMPORTANT SCIENTIFIC POST
An important scientific position has been awarded Dr V. Armstrong, of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. He is to leave New Zealand in July to take up the position of scientific liaison officer in America for the department. Di* Armstrong, who is a son of .Mr and Mrs V. Armstrong, of Christchurch and formerly of Runanga, was educated at the Runanga State School and the Greymouth Technical High School before commencing his university courses. Dr Armstrong took his doctorate at the Imperial College of Science and Technology under Sir Alfred Egerton, secretary of the Royal Society. Fuel technology was his major subject, and chemical engineering his minor subject. In 1946 Dr Armstrong was appointed fuel technologist in the department, to investigate coal wastage in New Zealand—estimated at 150,000 to 200,000 tons a year. During the war Dr Armstrong left the department to manage the Ford Motor Company’s munitions plant for filling 2-inch and 3-inch mortar bombs, the only plant of its kind in New Zealand.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 23 May 1949, Page 4
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