FOR NIGERIAN SERVICE

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1020, 10 July 1930, Page 14

FOR NIGERIAN SERVICE

AUCKLANDER’S NEW POST TO JOIN ADMINISTRATION An Auckland barrister and solicitor, Mr. Ronald O. Sinclair, LL.M., has been selected for a post in West Africa in the service of the Colonial Office. This is the first appointment to he received by a New Zealander under the new policy of offering such appointments to young men from the Domin*

Application was made by Mr. Sinclair some months ago and, along with a number of others, he was interviewed personally by a committee, of which the Governor-General was cliaiiman This body was practically the one which makes the regular select.on of Rhodes scholars. Nil*. Sinclair then went to England for instruction, which will include a course of special study at an English university. He will spend a year at Balliol College, Oxford, and afterward take a brief course in tropical hygiene. He will then proceed to Nigeria to join the administrative staff. As a Master of Laws of th*s New Zealand University, Mr. Sinclair was best fitted of all applicants for this •post. He was establishing himself well in Auckland as a practising barrister and solicitor when the opportunity came for Imperial service, j Mr. Sinclair’s parents live in Epsom, i his father being the Rev. W. A. Sinclair, general secretary to the New

Zealand Methodist Foreign Missionary Society, which has an extensive mistier. m tim Solomon Islands.