RHODES SCHOLARS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2749, 2 March 1910, Page 5

RHODES SCHOLARS.

NEW ZEALAND’S REPRESENTATIVE. ri’nit Press Association.] WELLINGTON, March 1. The Board of Selection meets in Wellington this afternoon to pick the Rhodes scholar for 1910. Owing to the recent absence from the Dominion of Sir Robert Stout and the impossibility of securing the attendance of a Supreme Court- Judge, there will be two vacancies on the Board, which will consist only of the Governor and representatives of the Professorial Boards of the four affiliated colleges of New Zealand University. These will he Professor Thomas (Auckland), Professor Kirk (Victoria College), Professor Blunt (Canterbury), and Professor Gilray (Otago University). Professor Hight was to have represented Canterbury College, but Ims been taken seriously ill. The candidates, who were entertained last evening by the students of Victoria. College, arc Kenneth Sisam (Auckland), Robert- Kennedy (Victoria), Edward John Wilson (Canterbury), and Henry Havelock Cornish (Otago University).

KENNETH SISAM. AN OPOTIKI LAD. GAINS COVETED DISTINCTION.

Kenneth Sisam, of Auckland, was this afternoon elected the New Zealand Rhodes scholar for 1910. Sisam was born at Opotiki in 1887, and has lived at Whakatane for the past 20 years. He went to Auckland Grammar School in 1900, passed the senior civil service examination four years later, and in 1905 took a junior university scholarship. He entered Auckland University in 1906, and for four years has keen the most brilliant student there. He recently secured Ins M.A. degree, with first-class honors in English and Latin. Sisam has an excellent athletic record.