AMERICAN FELLOWSHIPS
NEW ZEALANDER HONOURED AWARD TO TELEGRAPH ENGINEER (By TeleyrapD.—Pre*s Association) WELLINGTON, Tuesday The Commonwealth Fund, under which a fellowship has been awarded Mr C. S. Plank, was established in 1918 by Mrs Stephen V. Harkness anil provides fellowships for candidates of British descent of on annual value of about £750 each, tenable for two years at certain American universities. Mr Plank is a son of Mr C. S. Plank, of Wellington, ex-chief telegraph engineer of the Post and Telegraph Department. He was educated at the Auckland Grammar School and Victoria University College, Wellington. He holds the degrees M.Sc., B. 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 in the engineering branch of the Post and Telegraph 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 the company covers practically the whole of America this will assist his studies.
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Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20501, 18 May 1938, Page 9
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185AMERICAN FELLOWSHIPS Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20501, 18 May 1938, Page 9
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