RHODES SCHOLARS

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 136, 5 December 1929, Page 11

RHODES SCHOLARS

CANDIDATES CHOSEtf

AUCKLAND AND OTAGO

The New Zealand Rhodes Scholar* for 1929 are P. C. Minns (Auckland) and J. C. Dakin (Otago). The selection was made this morning by the Rhodes Scholarship Committee of Selection, consisting of His Excellency the Governor-General, Sir Charles Fergussou (chairman), the Chancellor of the New Zealand University (Professor J. Macallan Br; wn), tho Chief Justice (the iion. M. Myei B ° p .„. Bo«5i f' i elT' man °£ the Academic «oaid), Sir Andrew Russell, Mr C AT t-ilray, and Professor Robertson Thc'ro iTii c: en c,r didatcs 'lw each the four colleges, except Canterbury which sent only one. Mr. E. T. Norrig (Dominion secretary) was also present Percy Croft - Minns • was born at canle *° Now Zealand junior national scholarship He attend cd the Auckland Gramm&ghK; *™ years, and matriculated in 1923. In 192 aho obtained a junior universitr scholarship, and then went to tho luck-' and University College, taking a Se "essfuf I/"? "l Which h° was very " uc . cessful. He has a most creditable record footi T m£ llts iv athleti<* and *usy football. He was in the first fifteens of the Auckland Grammar School and the Auckland Training College, ana represented Auckland |rovinef 'in 1927 Si ai\ tt929- -pc also represented and 1929 C-oUege * 192S f.™ i • ? mjUry Panted him. fiom playing for New Zealand against i\ew South AValcs in 1928, but thit year he gained his New Zealand ■ TTftivers.ty Bugby "blue," and played for tho North Island against the South. Ho was athletic champion of tho Auckland Grammar School for two years, ad champion of the Training .College for Auckland University athletic "blue »' and captained the college team at this year s tournament. Swimming and ten MS are other sports in which he has done well, and he is keenly interested m debating, military -Work, and music " James Campbell Dakin is the son of Mr. J, P. Dakin, 8.A., of London University, who has been for many years science master at the Southland Boys' High School, Invercargill. Born at Inyereargill in 1908, he -became dux of the South School in that town in 1921 and", then attended the South Boys' High School for four years, gaining a .junior national scholarship in th& first year and a senior national scholarship and his matriculation in 1924. He was dux of the school in 1923, and the next year he was awarded a junior i university scholarship,' gaining tho highest total marks in the Dominion From 1927 up to the present time ho has been attending Otago University, specialising in languages, and sitting for his B.A; degree this year. His favourite sports are tennis and fives, and his .general interests include literary work in connection with tho college magazines and association with the Arts Students' Association, of Which he is president, the Students? Association, and the National Union, of Students.