COSTLY EXPORTS

Hokitika Guardian, 24 August 1929, Page 6

COSTLY EXPORTS

NOT SHOWN in RETURNS. Just us opium and cocaine come into this country, only noticed occa.sion•illy, what is surely our greatest -product slips quietly away, leaving New Zealand infinitely poorer for its passing (writes “H.C.C.” iu_ the “Dominion”).

I hough we see the amounts of . butter, meat, wool, and other exports shown irom time to time, no mention is ever made of this commodity, for which we are receiving but little re- N tui’if. Probably the chief rqason why it does not appear to upset the trade balance is . that it is impossible to’ assess. This: unrecorded export is ability. Within the pa’st' two months twelve New Zealanders have received responsible positions abroad. India, South Africa, East Africa., Scotland, Canada, British Solomon Islands, Tonga., British North Borneo and the Federated Malay States have each claimed one of our men.

Mining has taken three graduates of the Otago School of Mines, while Universities have found’ positions for three others from the Dominion. Two have joined the Colonial Civil Service, and surveying and agriculture have ea'oh dangled an attractive position before the eyes of a New 'Zealander, while the Mawson Antarctic Expedition has two more among its personnel.

Mr F. W. Rhodes, a former Canterbury College, student, has accepted the position of Professor of English' at’ the University of Rangoon, Mr R. Symc, after a distinguished academic career, has been..appointed lecturer in Ancient History at Oxford, while Mr E. F. Ncrthcroft has taken a lectureship in biology at the University of Aberdeen. 'Mr H, Tripe lias been appointed to the Colonial Civil Service, at Tanganyika, and Mr D. G. Croll has taken up an important post in the Solomon Islands. Mr H. P. Ritchie, who held the position of Director of Agriculture in Samoa, under the New Zealand Government, will now serve Tonga in a similar capacity. Mr T. H. Speedy, once of Auckland, has become Surveyor-General of British North Borneo.

Tile Hidden Ceek Mine, Onyox, British Columbia, the second largest copper mine in the Empire, with a daily output of 4500 tons of ore., has claimed Mr S. M. Mclntosh. Mr B. F. Tyson, who qualified only last year, is on his way to join the Pahang Consolidated Tin Mining Company in Malaya. Mr W. E. Barron has received .the. post of mining engineer and geologist to. the North Charterland Exploration Company, Rhodesia. During the same period, Dr Muriel Bell, of Napier, has been offered the William Gibson Research Scholarship, which is open .to medical women of the British Empire, entitling!-her to work at the Lister Institute, London. unde.r . the auspices of. the Royal Society of Medicine; and Mr F. W. G. White, of Victoria . College,, has won . the iStrathcona Studentship for St. John’s College, Cambridge, open to graduates -within the Empire. Then Mr W. J. Bellow has been granted a scholarship at Princetown University, U.S.A., and Mr H. E. Field, lecturer in philosophy at Canterbury College, will leave shortly for America with a research scholarship. Of those already abroad, Mr E. J. Riolies, at .present on the staff of the International Labour Office at Geneva, has gained a Laura Spelman Rockfcllow Fellowship from the University of Michigan, and Mr M. Barak, now at Oxford, a Cbnimonwfttdtli Fellowship tenable in the United States. He will go to Princetown, there to pursue his studies in physical chemistry. In addition, four New Zealanders, Messrs R. !M. Campbell, A. L. Ha.slam, R. S. Allen, and R. R.. Nimmo have received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from the leading English universities, and Flying Officer, C. E. Clay, of the Royal Air Force, has been made a member of the Royal Meteorological Society.

It is sale to say that a large percentage of these students have been lost to New Zealand, since, with such records as they possess, but few openings can be found for them here sufficiently remunerative to attract. Among New- Zealanders at present occupying prominent positions in the scientific world are Sir Ernest Rutherford,. 0.M., president of the Royal Society and one of the most famed physicists of the day; Dr J. W. Meller, F.R.S., author of the thirteen vloliune “Comprehensive Treatise, on Tnorgpnici and Theoretical Chemistry Dr P. H. Ruck, ethnologist on the staff of the Bishop Museum, Honolulu; Dr A. B. Begg, of the Stroud Laboratories, London, who will shortly be coming to Now Zealand to continue his cancer, researches; and Air H. D. Gillies, the famous plastic surgeon, who has long been ..engaged in making new Laces for ex-soldiers. Journalism is represented by Low, the most highly-paid cartoonist in the world : Mr F. W. Doidge, editor of the “Evening Standard,” and Miss Rosemary Rees, the novelist, who is also on the pay-roll of Lord Beaverhrook. Professor J. B. Condhffe, who is now secretary to the (Institute of Pacific Relations, Hawaii, and Sir William Marris, who has been Indian Home Secretary, Governor of Assam, Governor of the United Provinces, and a member of the Council of Tndia, are other representatives of the Dominion. Besides all the politicians and would-be 'politicians in New Zealand, this country has found Premiers for both New South Wales and Queensland in the persons of Mr T. R. Bavin and Mr A. F. Moore.