RHODES SCHOLARS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 838, 5 December 1929, Page 11

RHODES SCHOLARS

AUCKLANDER AND DUNEDIN MAN SELECTED

PERCY C. MINNS’S SUCCESS

j>rc*3 Association WELLINGTON, Today. j « r Percy C. Minns, R.A., of Auck , and Mr. J. C. Dakin, of Otago rniversity, have teen selected as j Zealand Rhodes Scholars for I Percy Minns was horn in Alba’* -, y-'est Australia. In 1907, but he has i , . d i n Jfew Zealand for the greater art of his life, lie came to the Doninion at an early age with his par- i m ;s who settled in the Wairarapa. wholarship and entered the Auckland ’ , animar School, where he had a dis- s tinguished athletic and scholastic ' areer. He was a prefect, a member if the first Rugby fifteen, a member 1 , the tennis and swimming clubs, ! and senior athlete of the school in ' M and 1925. He then entered the Auckland Uni- 1 tersity College in 1926 with a junior 1 university scholarship, being seventh on the Dominion 1 list He completed ' the course for the Bachelor of Arts degree last year, , and since then ( has been a mem-: , her of the staff of the Mount Albert Grammar School. - He has taken a , great interest in \ the social life of •he University College, and was chairman of the A.U.C. Athletic Club. t Minns has shone particularly as a , Rugby footballer, in which game he j has represented his college, his pro- j fines and the North Island, lie was ( ilso selected to play for the All Blacks , last year, but was unable to play, and ( the same cause this year prevented r him again winning that distinction. . The committee of selection consists , of the Governor-General, Sir Charles fergusson (in his private capacity), ( the Chief Justice of the Dominion, the , Hon M. Myers, K.C., the Chancellor ( and Vice-Chancellor of the University , of New Zealand, the chairman of the Acadamic Board, and two former E Rhodes scholars. , Mr. P. C. Minns and Mr. A. H. Mac- i lionald were the Auckland nominees. , The scholarship is tenable at Oiford University for three ‘years, and is of the value of £3OO a year. The scholars will take up their residence at Oxford in October next. ]