THE RHODES SCHOLARSHIP.
AUCKLAND'S CANDIDATE. ONLY ONE ENTRANT. By Telegraph—Press Association. AUCKLAND, December 7. A meeting of the Professional Board ot the Auckland University was held this afternoon for the purpose of selecting this year's Auckland candidate fur the Rnodes Scholarship. There was only one applicant (Mr V. G. Aldridge), whom the Board Jecided to select. The Auckland representative for the Rhodes honours is the ninth and youngest son of Mr George Aldridge, of Auckland, who has been for twenty-five years pastor of the Church of Christ, of Newton. The young student was born in Auckland, and has not yet attained his majority. He has gained his B.Sc, and has the distinction of being the first to win in one year three senior scholarships since the present regulations came nito force in 1883.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3064, 8 December 1908, Page 5
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133THE RHODES SCHOLARSHIP. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3064, 8 December 1908, Page 5
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