FELLOWSHIP AWARD
A DISTINGUISHED ENGINEER (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The Commonwealth Fund, under which a fellowship has been awarded to Mr C. S. Plank, was established in 1918 by Mrs Stephen V. Starkness and provides a varying number of fellowships for candidates of British descent of an annual value of about £ 750 each. The fellowship enables the holder to spend two years at a certain commercial university. Mr Plank is a son of Mr C. S. Plank ,of Wellington, exChief Telegraph Engineer of the P. & T. department. He was educated at the Auckland Grammar School and Victoria University College, Wellington and holds the degrees of M.Sc., 8.Com., A.R.A.N.Z., and A.M.1.E.E., and is a chartered electrical engineer In New Zealand he has held various positions on the engineering branch of the P. & T. department, and at the moment is Telegraph Engineer at Palmerston North. He is not going to any particular university, but is being sent to the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, in view of the fact that he is to study transmission engineering. As that company covers practically the whole of America, this will assist his duties.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 May 1938, Page 6
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