PERSONALITIES

Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 175, 27 July 1935, Page 4

PERSONALITIES

A cable message i'rom New York states that Hon. J. G. Coates has arrived there on route for Washington.

Degrees were conferred as follows at a meeting of the executive committee of the Senate of the University of New Zealand yesterday:—Master of Science (Canterbury College), William Eidland; Bachelor of Dental Surgery (University of Otago), Matthew Richard Cable and James Ferris fuller. Mr. Cable has been awarded a scholarship in dentistry at the University of Chicago. A travelling scholarship in agriculture has been awadod C. Sanderson, Auckland University College.

The assistant-director of the Horticultural Division, Mr W. G. Goodwin, has been seconded for a term of duty with the Cook Islands Administration at an early date, states a Press Association message from Wellington. He will take up the appointment of director of agriculture for the Cook Islands with headquarters at Rarotonga, and will exercise supervision over other islands. He will leave Wellington for Rarotonga on September J. Mr Goodwin succeeds the Jate Mr C. J. Boucher, former director of agriculture at the islands, who was a victim of the hurricane which swept the Cook group last February. While attempting to save Government property e was struck by a huge wave and injured, necessitating the amputation of a Jog, from which ho subsequently died.