TO STUDY IN U.K.

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31085, 14 June 1966, Page 10

TO STUDY IN U.K.

Engineer Wins Bursary An International Road Federation bursary, financed by the B.P. group, has been awarded to a Ministry of Works engineer, Mr G. D. Hamilton, to enable him to study highway and traffic engineering in Britain. The director of the New Zealand Road Federation (Mr G." I. B. Thomas) said yesterday that Mr Hamilton would leave for Britain later this year to take a 12 months’ postgraduate course at Newcastle-on-Tyne University. Mr Hamilton would be eligible for an appropriate academic award on the successful completion of the course. Mr Thomas said that the conditions of the bursary required Mr Hamilton to return to New Zealand and follow his profession for at least two years.

“It is gratifying to the Road Federation—and to New Zealanders as a whole, I am sure —to know that Mr Hamilton’s studies stand to benefit road users throughout the country, and we are most grateful to the B.P. group for making them possible,” he said. Mr Hamilton, now in Wellington, was for three years assistant civil engineer with the Ministry of Works at Hamilton. He was educated at Otahuhu College, where he was dux, and attended the Auckland School of Engineering from which he graduated in 1963.