Morris Hedstrom
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Scholarship For 1949
Suva. Nov. 14.
Rederick Manu Giblin, The 19-
year-old son of Captain F. Giblin, has been chosen as Morris. Hedstrom Scholar for 1949. He was born at Levuka and was educated at the Levuka Public School, the Marist Brothers’ Secondary School, Suva, and Sacred Heart College, Auckland. He proposes to study for a degree in Agricultural Science at either
the University of Queensland or Auck land University College. He is a nephew of Dr. Giblin, well known in New Guinea before the war. The selection committee comprised Sir Maynard Hedstrom (chair man), Mr. M. Arthur (Acting Director of Education) and Mr. Robert Munro.
The French metropolitan shipbuilding programme includes the construction of four cargo vessels of 8,300 tons for the South Pacific trade. The programme is already well advanced according to Paris messages.