SCIENTIFIC WORK
RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIP
AWARD MADE TO AUCKLANDER TENABLE FOR TWO YEARS (Per United Press Association.) Auckland, June 26. The 1851 scholarship, one of the highest honours that can be gained by students of science in New Zealand, has been awarded this year to W. A. Macky, assistant to Professor Burbidge of the Physics Department of the Auckland University College.
The first choice made by the Board of Examiners in England was J. C. Andrews, of Auckland, but owing to private reasons he was unable to accept the scholarship, the next eelection being Mr Macky, Under the terms of the scholarship, the winner can carry on scientific research in any re cognized institution in the world. It is tenable for two years and it is valued at £250 a year. Mr Macky intends to proceed to England in a month or two and will enter Caius College. Cambridge, where he will study in the Cavendish Laboratory under the famous New Zealander Sir Ernest Rutherford who was also an 1851 scholarship holder.
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Southland Times, Issue 20523, 27 June 1928, Page 8
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