OXFORD DEGREES

New Zealand Herald, Volume 82, Issue 25345, 29 October 1945, Page 6

OXFORD DEGREES

DK W. E. HENLEY FORMER RHODES SCHOLAR Advice has been received in Auckland that a former New Zealand Rhodes Scholar, Dr W. E. Henley, who was physician at the Waikato Hospital from J 940 until 1942, has been awarded the degrees of master of arts and doctor of medicine at Oxford University. His doctorate thesis was on the subject of the state of nutrition of six-months'-old infants in New Zealand, and was based on work done in this country while he held a research fellowship in 1939. He previously held the Oxford degrees of bachelor of medicine and bachelor of surgery. Dr Henley gained a New Zealand Rhodes Scholarship in 1929. Ho was born in Napier in 1907 and received his education at the Napier High School and Wanganui College, later entering Otago University as a medical student. After continuing his studies at Oxford University, Dr Henley began his practical medical work at St. Mary's Hospital, London. He received the Harmsworth scholarship in 1932 and the Chcadle gold medal in clinical medicine shortly afterward. He was apoointed joint medical superintendent of emergency hospital organisations in Great Britain during the Munich crisis of 1938. Dr Henley was elected to a Radclifi'e Travelling Fellowship in medicine and returned to New Zealand in 1939. He was awarded the Lady King scholarship in May of that year to enable him to undertake research work in New Zealand in infant feeding. In May, 1910, ho took up an appointment as physician to the Waikato Hospital, relinquishing this position after two years to return to Britain. Dr Henley is a keen athlete and retained his interest in Rugby football while in England. In 1936 he married the well-known Now Zealand eolfer, Miss W. Barns-Graham, of Gisborne, making a trip to New Zealand specially for the purpose.

JOURNALIST'S RECORD LONG SERVICE RECOGNISED (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Saturday To mark the completion by Mr C. E. Wheeler of 40 years' service as a member of the Parliamentary press gallery, his colleagues entertained him last night at a social function in Parliament House to which they invited members of the ministerial secretarial corps. Mr F. W. .Doidge, M.P. for Tauranga, a former member of the press gallery and an associate of Mr Wheeler, was also present. Mr H. Oaltloy Browne, another old colleague of Mr Wheeler, presided and presented the guest with a framed photograph of the members of the gallery taken in their places in the House of Representatives, with the Speaker in his robes sitting in his chair on the floor of tho Hoiisu. Mr Wheeler's long service as a Parliamentary reporter is unique in New Zealand and is thought not to have been exceeded in any other part of the Empire.