BRILLIANT SCHOLARS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 576, 31 January 1929, Page 8

BRILLIANT SCHOLARS

AUCKLAND DOCTORS OF PHILOSOPHY ! MESSRS. HILL AND MACKY Messrs. W. S. Hill and W. A_ Mackv the two Auckland students of the New Zealand University, who have been awarded the degree of Doctor of Phi] osophy. were both educated at \uck~ land secondary schools. Mr. Hill has specialised in agricultural science and Mr. Mucky in physics. Both men have excellent scholasti. records. After leaving Kings Cohere Mr. Hill studied at Canterbury AgrU cultural College. winning various scholarships and a diploma, and beins gold medallist of the college in 1910 He was among the first students to gain the degree of Bachelor of Asriculture. Up to 1914 he was plant breeder to the Department of Agriculture at the Moumahaki experimental station where he specialised in lucerne fodder crops. After war service he was officer in charge of agricultural education to the Expeditionary Force in England. He studied under Sir John Russell at the Rothamstead experimental farm, following the award of a scholarship. At present Mr. Hill is agricultural instructor on the staff of the Seddon Memorial Technical College. He is a member of the council of the New Zealand Institute of Horticulture and of the Agricultural Science Club. He took the culture of lucerne as his subject for the doctorate of philosophy. Mr. Macky has been for some time a lecturer at the Auckland University College, where he has assisted Professor Burbidge of the physics department, and he is a present holder of the ISSI scholarship, which he won last year and which is one of the highest honours that can be gained by science students in the Dominion. The scholastic career of Mr. Macky has been brilliant. At 25 years of age he is a Master of Science, and a work by him on electricity created by friction was published recently in the proceedings of the Royal Society, London. He is a son of the late Mr. Macky, at one time headmaster of the Te Papapa School, and received his education at the Auckland Grammar School, where he gained both junior and senior national scholarships. He studied at the Univ€?rsity College later, and in 1924 returned to the Grammar School as a science master. He was appointed to the position of lecturer at the University College in 1926.