UNIVERSITY OF NEW ZEALAND

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21409, 27 February 1935, Page 11

UNIVERSITY OF NEW ZEALAND

—* — DEGREES CONFERRED TWO DOCTORATES AWARDED (PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) WELLINGTON, February 26. The following degrees have been awarded by the executive committee of the Senate of the University of New Zealand:— Doctor of Science: C. R. Laws (Auckland). Doctor of Medicine: Francis O. Bennett (Christchurch). Dr. Bennett's thesis was of such merit that the degree was awarded without further examination.

Bachelor of Arts—AverDla Margaret Gorrie. Bachelor of Commerce —lan Fraser McKenzi'e. Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery, University of Otago— Edmund Peter Allen, Ruth Margaret Boyd-Wilson, Robert David Morrow, Charles Barclay Innes, lan Douglas Thomson. Bachelor of Dental Surgery (University of Otago)—Percy Rimmer, Alexander John Ross, Frank Robert Shroff. Bachelor of Engineering (Canterbury University College)— Bernard John Harris (electrical and civil), Archibald Charles Bruce Smithson (civil). The vice-chancellor of the University of Bristol advised that the Michael Hiatt Baker Scholarship, first awarded to Mr A. J. Ockleston, of Canterbury University College, in 1933, had been extended to Mr Ockleston for a further year. This scholarship was founded in 1933 by investments transferred to the University of Bristol by Mr and Mrs Hiatt C. Baker, of Almondsbury, Gloucester County, in memory of their son Michael, who lost his life in the earthquake at Napier on February 3, 1931. The scholarship normally is tenable for two years; but the vice-chancellor of Bristol University has power to extend it for a third. No further award will therefore be made till 1936. lTh-3 thesis submitted for a doctorale of medicine by Dr. Francis Bennett, of Christchurch, which was so highly regarded by the examiners in London, was on "Anaemias ot' Pregnancy," dealing with various states of the blood in certain types of patient. The thesis involved a Kood deal of original research work, most of which was done by Dr. Bennett while he was practising on the West Coast. Over a period of five or six years he made a special study of all the cases in his care which came within the scope of the thesis. Dr. Bennett is a graduate of the Otago Medical School. He has been practising in Christchurch for nearly a year. It is believed that this is only the second time that a thesis for a New Zealand doctorate has been so received.]