LOHSE SCHOLARSHIPS.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18267, 29 December 1924, Page 2

LOHSE SCHOLARSHIPS.

SUCCESSFUL APPLICANTS. In the January issue of the "Church News," the names are published of the successful applicants for the Lohse scholarships. The applications, of which there were a considerable- number, were received at the end of Octobei and the awards have been made by the' Church Property Trustees. The scholarships are not awarded as the result of competitive examinations, but are granted, at the discretion of the trustees, to the applicants who show pronounced talent in certain studies connected with the arts and sciences. This year's scholarships have been awarded as follows: Misses Dorothy Butterfield (Waipawa\ E. Hope Purcbas (Cashmere Hills), Florence M. Small (Invercarvgill), Eva M. Greer (Auckland), and Cicely Christian (Christchurch). These scholarships were founded in 1917, and are provided for under the will of the late Johanna Lohse, who, for many years, conducted a girls' school in Christchurch. Each scholarship is tenable for three years, and is worth £IOO per annum. They are open to the daughters of Anglican clergymen in the Dominion; the applicants must be over 16 years of age and under 26 years of iige, and they must have resided continuously in the Dominion for at least three years. The object of the scholarships is to provide tuition and instruction, either in the Dominion, or the United Kingdom, or the Continent of Europe, to "students showing proficiency or promise in either arts, or sciences, or painting, or sculpture, or music, or any other branch of learning whatsoever." l n the case of students showing exceptional promise and desirous of pursuing their studies outside New Zealand, the trustees, at their discretion, may increase the scholarship to £l5O per annum. The desire of the ! foundress was to enable girls to gain l honou ™ in th e particular studies taken j up by them in order that they might I bo in a position to give others the bene- . fit of their knowledge Since the scholarships were founded somo twenty-five scholars have benefited by then: several have attended schools in Freland two went to Oxford, and oV-rs studied at the Royal College of Music.