RHODES SCHOLARSHIP
NO SELECTION THIS YEAR (Por Pross Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. For the first time in history, New Zealand will be without a Rhodes Scholar tins year. The selection committee met at Government House yesterday. After live candidates had appeared before it, and after protracted deliberations upon their merits, it was resolved to make no award. ft is understood that the meeting was the longest selection committee meeting ever held. Victoria University College did not nominate any candidates and Otago University made only one. nomination, hut Auckland and Canterbury Colleges both submitted two students. Those present at the meeting, at which Lord Bledisloe presiding, were the Onet Justice, Professor J. Macmillan Brown, Chancellor of the University of New Zealand; Professor H. W. Segar, chanman of the Academic Board : Sir Andiew Russell, Professor P. W. Robertson, and Mr. C. M. Gilray, the last two being former Rhodes Scholars.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17950, 30 November 1932, Page 4
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