LIBRARY FELLOWSHIP

Southland Times, Issue 22378, 18 July 1934, Page 8

LIBRARY FELLOWSHIP

UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO. MR W. J. HARRIS SUCCESSFUL. (Per United Press Association.) Dimedin, July 17. In accordance with a recommendation from the Library Committee, the Council of the University of Otago, at its monthly meeting to-day, decided to recommend to the Carnegie Corporation that its Library Fellowship offered to the university in 1931 be granted to Mr William John Harris. Mr Harris, who is 30 years of age, is a son of the late Captain E. Harris, of Oamaru. He was educated at Christs College, and was for a short period a master at that school, whilst continuing his studies at Canterbury College. He later went to England and entered Oxford University, where he took the degree of Bachelor of Arts, with honours in Modem History. On leaving Oxford he travelled widely in Northern Canada, before returning to New Zealand and again taking up his mastership at Christ’s College. Towards the end of 1932 he embarked on an extensive tour of the South Sea Islands, as one of the crew of the ill-fated ketch Water Lily, which was wrecked early last year in the Ellice Group. On his return to Auckland he took up literary work, and for the past 12 months he has been engaged in writing a book on his travels.