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H. L. Richardson, M.Sc. who left this college two years ago with an Empire Exhibition Scholarship, has been studying at the Imperial College of Science and Technology. He has now been fortunate enough to win another Exhibition Scholarship, which has been subsidised by the New Zealand Government. This scholarship enables its fortunate holder to spend a year doing research work at the Rothamstead Experimental Station at Harpenden.

Doctor Cotton, for many years the only bachelor upon the Professorial Board, has taken upon himself the bonds of matrimony. On July 17th, 1926, at St. Matthew's Church, Auckland, was solemnised his wedding with Miss Josephine Gibbons, second daughter of the late Captain J. Gibbons, of Devonport, Auckland. We hope that the happy pair will accept our congratulations.

J. G. Myers, M.Sc. who won the 1851 Science Scholarship two years ago, and has since been working for his Ph.D. at Harvard, has accepted a position in the Imperial Bureau of Entomology, London.

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We extend a welcome to Dr. Sword, who is to be Chemistry Demonstrator in place of Mr. Monro for the next year.

An engagement which has produced a little more than the ordinary commotion is that cabled from England of Vera B Reader, M.Sc. Ph.D., to Ronald Syme, M.A. Students that were at V.U.C. in 1923 will remember them both.

A visitor to the last debate was J. d'H. morel, a son of the late E. D. morel, who was widely known as the liberator of the Congo slaves and in later years as the editor of " Foreign Affairs." He was the subject of a Plunket medal oration a year ago. Mr. morel is in Wellington awaiting news regarding a position he is to take in Hawke's Bay as a photographer of bird life.