RHODES SCHOLARSHIP
CANTERBURY NOMINATION. By Telegraph.—Press •Association. Christchurch, Last Night. The professorial board of Canterbury College to-night decided to nominate for selection as a Rhodes Scholar, Mr. Philip Leonard Matthew Soljak. Mr. Soljak, who is 21 years of age, attended the Tauranga District High Schoo! and the Marist Bros. School at Auckland. In 1921 he entered the Sacred Heart College, Auckland, with a scholarship. He was dux of the school in 1924 and 1925, in the latter year winning a Junior University Scholarship and entering Canterbury College. In 1926 he was awarded a Rolw’rt Bell Scholarship in journalism at the college. He is a member of the Dramatie Society and gained second place in the Dialectic Society’s competltidns in 1926. He played in the second grade football team in 192 G and 1927 and was runner-up in the college swimming championship.
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Taranaki Daily News, 11 October 1928, Page 9
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