GOVERNMENT PETROLOGIST
DR C. 0. HUTTON APPOINTED \ r (Pee United Press Association) AUCKLAND, Aug. 28. The first graduate of the New Zealand University to be awarded a Shirtcliffe Scholarship, Dr C. O. Hutton, returned to the Dominion by the Maunganui. He has been appointed to the Government’s geological survey service as 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 metamophric rocks. He went to Cambridge University and did research work under Dr C. E Tilley, famous petrologist and minerologist. Dr Hutton spent some time examining the 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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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23590, 29 August 1938, Page 15
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