NEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIPS

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 218, 12 September 1916, Page 7

NEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIPS

;/ TO EARL KITCHENER. / A NEW ZEALAND SCHEME. / nsy Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Monday. i The Council of Education discussed the lion. R. H. Rhodes' offer of £1,000 as a /nucleus fund for the establishment of /Kitchener Memorial Scholarships, and I nade ibe following recommendations: — That the Government be requested to establish scholarships, to be called Kitchener Memorial Scholarships, to be open for competition among the sons of fallen officers, non-commissioned officers end men of the Xew Zealand Expeditionary Forces, for the purpose of assisting such eons to enter a naval college to qnjMfy for the Navy. That the donation of Colonel R. Hea4on Rhodes, M.P.. be applied to the fund fnr the establishment of such ScholarEMpS. That public subscriptions be invited to augment such fund, which the Government be requested to subsidise. That after the sons of fallen officers, non-commissioned officers, and nien of the New Zealand Expeditionary Forces need no longer be provided for, the scholarships be available to the sons of returned members of the said forces, and •when .these .need no longer be provided for. /that the scholarships be available ' for the sons of officers, non-com-missioned officers, and men of the New Zealand Navy. Army, and Air Services, for the purpose already indicated. That Education Boards throughout Kcw Zealand b< , requested to invite public bodi-es within their districts to invite public subscriptions to the fund. : =