HELP THE SOLDIERS' CHILDREN.

Free Lance, Volume XVIII, Issue 971, 27 February 1919, Page 8

HELP THE SOLDIERS' CHILDREN.

The Dominion Scholarship Fund.

WE are glad to see that greater and better organised activity is to be displayed in connection with the highly laudable scheme for the provision of Dominion Scholarships for the children of the men who have so gallantly upheld the honour of New Zealand and of the British flag in Egypt, and Palestine, at Gallipoli, and on thv Westetn Front. So far public support of the Trentham Art Union has not been so generous as it might and ought to have been had the laudable character of the objects to be attained by the Art Union been adequately understood. The pneumonic-influenza epidemic has no doubt been a factor in this curious lack of support, but the. epidemic is no longer with us, and this excuse no longer has any foundation or value. The organisers aim at assisting returned soldiers, or their widows, in giving their children opportunities for obtaining a high-class secondary education which the financial position of the parents or guardians could not permit.

* * * ■» No more worthy object for public liberality could be imagined. As to the means by which the money is to be raised, there has been no art union during the war period in which the prizes have been so numerous and of so valuable a character. "We hope that now some new energy is to be thrown into the movement, the public will respond with unparalleled generosity. Have you a ticket in the Scholarship Union? If not, go straight away and buy half-a-dozen.