N.Z. STUDENTS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19336, 28 May 1937, Page 12

N.Z. STUDENTS

SCHOLARSHIP HONOURS TWO BRILLIANT MEN A London cable message this week announced the grant of Commonwealth fund fellowships to Mr. I. F. G. Milner and Mr. W. J. Blackie, both New Zealanders.

Mr. Milner is the son of Mr. Frank Milner. C.M.G., rector of Whitaki Boys' High School, and is 26 years of age. He received bis secondary education at Waitaki, where bo gained a number of prizes. He won Junior and Senior National Scholarships in successive years, and passed the matriculation examination in 1925, finishing the secondary studies with a university entrance scholarship and a credit pass, and passing out as dux of the school in 1929. He was also a prefect and head of the school. At Otago University he followed a course in languages, gaining the senior scholarship in English and being proxime aeeessit for the scholarship in French last year, when he completed his degree. In 1930 lie was Arnold Atkinson Memorial Prizeman in the University of New Zealand, and in 1931 Ensom Prizeman at Canterbury University College. He always took a prominent part in debating and was a member of the Joynt Scroll debating team in inter-university contests.

He represented Canterbury College at cricket and at shooting, and also has swum with success in the college championships. He also represented North Otago on the cricket field, and played football for a college team each season. Mr. Milner was a Rhodes Scholar of 1933, and is at present studying at Oxford.

Mr. Blackie went to Otago University in 1926 from Wellington, where lie had been working at the .gasworks. He was a brilliant student, and graduated M.@c. in 1929. He then undertook research in goitre at the Medical School. After teaching at Auckland be was appointed to the position of Government analyst in Fiji four years ago.