RESEARCH POST

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 276, 22 November 1943, Page 4

RESEARCH POST

HONOUR FOR WAVERLEY MAN .SERGEANT E. E. CHAMBERJLAIN. Sergeant E. E. Chamberlain, aon of Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Chamberlain, Waverley, has been appointed assistant director of the plant diseases division, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. Sergeant Chamberlain is at present on active service in the Middle East.

He was educated at the Wairarapa High School, where he was a pupil lor lour years, and he took the degree of bachelor of science at Victoria University College, Wellington, in 1928. The following year he obtained his master’s degree. In December, 1928, Sergeant Chamberlain was attached to the plant diseases division of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, which was then situated at Palmerston North, where he commenced a sei.es of investigations into the virus diseases of plants and their control.

In this field he quickly became a recognised authority. Working continuously and intensively for the next 12 years, he dealt with all virus diseases of major economic importance, publishing no less than 45 original contributions, of which 13 were in collaboration with fellow workers in the plant diseases division. Most of this original matter was later incorporated as a thesis, which when presented to the University of New Zealand secured for him the degree of doctor of science in June. 1939.

Sergeant Chamberlain volunteered for service with the armed forces and lor the past two years has been with the 2nd, N.Z.E.F., first as lance-ser-geant in the artillery and later as sergeant with a survey battery. At the conclusion ot the Tunisian campaign Sergeant Chamberlain was posted io the Middle East officer cadet, training unit to train lor a commission as an artillery officer.

A keen athlete, Sergeant Chamberlain has tor many years been an active member of several tramping clubs. He represent ed Victoria College in the inter-college boxing tourney and played in the Massey College first til teen football teanl Shortly before going overseas, he married the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. S. Bayliss, Campbell's Bay, Auckland.