N.Z. UNIVERSITY AWARD

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 67, 21 March 1938, Page 6

N.Z. UNIVERSITY AWARD

POST-GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP IN SCIENCE MR. S. N. SLATER, M.Sc. At last Friday's meeting of the Senate of the New Zealand University Mr. S. N. Slater, M.Sc., of Wanganui, was awarded the Post-gradu-ate Travelling Scholarship for New Zealand in Science. This scholarship is awarded to the candidate who has obtained first class honours in his master’s degree, and is intended, not to facilitate attendance at ordinary collegiate studies, but to enable students who have passed through a college curriculum and have distinct evidence of capacity for post-graduate work to continue their advanced studies in some other university approved by the New Zealand Senate, the university selected being one of the famous British universities. As competition is among post-graduate students in all the sciences, Mr. Slater is to be congratulated on being the one selected from our four universities in New Zealand. Mr. S. N. Slater has certainly had a conspicuous career in sciences. Leaving Wanganui Technical College four years ago with a Knox Scholarship and a Junior University Scholarship, in which examination he obtained top place for his grouped sciences in New Zealand, he entered Otago University to specialise in chemistry i Throughout his career at Otago University he obtained phenomenally high marks in his sciences, and at the end of the third year, with an average of over 90 per cent, in chemistry, he obtained the Senior Scholarship foi New Zealand in chemistry. At I the same time, in competition with j those in New Zealand who had pursued their studies to a more advanced stage, he was selected as the one best fitted to receive the coveted Smaton Research Scholarship in industrial chemistry, both scholarships being held concurrently. While holding these two scholarships, Mr. Slater read for his master’s degree, which he obtained last year with first class honours in chemistry. Mr. Slater’s latest award carries with it a free passage to Britain, with an emolument of £250 per annum and tenable for two years. Mr. Slater will probably be leaving for England in the coming spring. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. F. Wentworth Slater, Nelson Street, Wanganui.