GEOLOGICAL RESEARCH.
Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Aug. 28. The first graduate of tlie New Zealand University to be awarded a Shirt-' cliffe Scholarship, Dr C. 0. Hutton, returned to the Dominion to-day. He has been appointed to the Government’s Geological Survey service as a petrologist, this being the first appointment of its kind in New Zealand. Dr Hutton left New Zealand two years ago after doing three years’ research work at Otago University. Being mainly interested in the study of metamorphic rocks, he went to Cambridge University and did research work under Dr O. E. Tilley, the famous petrologist and minerologist. Dr Hutton spent some time examining rocks he collected in the Lake Wakatipu and Lake Manapouri regions. He took the degree of Doctor of Philosophy last May.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 231, 29 August 1938, Page 8
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