HIS HOBBY IS KNITTING
ESSAY PRIZEWINNER BUSY ON KETTLEHOLDER (Special—By Air Mail) LONDON, May 13. Mr Charles Henry Salter, of New College, Oxford, who was announced this week as the winner of the Chancellor’s English Essay Prize, is the Knitting Undergraduate. He said last night: “I play tennis for my own amusement but my great hobby is knitting. I am knitting a kettleholder at the moment.” He is 20 years old and in his second year at Oxford. His friend, Mr Kenneth Stanley Kitchin, has, it was also announced this week won this year’s Newdigate Prize. He will soon be 20, is in his last year at Oxford. Asked what he would do when he left Oxford he said: "I suppose that first of all I shall be conscripted but I don't mind a bit. In fact I think I shall enjoy it. I hope to take up literary work after that.”
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVI, Issue 21360, 1 June 1939, Page 12
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152HIS HOBBY IS KNITTING Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVI, Issue 21360, 1 June 1939, Page 12
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