SOLDIERS' CHILDREN
TKENTHAM SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS CTBE3S ASSOCIA.IIOX TELEG*AM.) N WELLINGTON, November 15. The executive of the Trentham Scholarship Fund considered 444 applications for bursaries foi 1935. Of the applications 44 were declined, and the 400 awards made were to a total value of £4338. This amount is greatly in excess of the amount available annually, but it is considered by the executive that even at the risk of shortening the life of the lurid it is better to meet the claims of the children of the dead and disabled soldiers requiring assistance at the present time. Since the inception of the fund, £60,591 12s 6d has been applied to provide secondary education for children of dead and disabled men who served in the Great War.
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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21323, 16 November 1934, Page 16
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