KITCHENER MEMORIAL FUND

Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23446, 29 September 1941, Page 3

KITCHENER MEMORIAL FUND

SCHOLARSHIP PROVISIONS (P.R.) WELLINGTON, September 26. The Kitchener Memorial Scholarship Fund is vested in the Public Trustee, and various alterations are made in the granting of scholarships from the fund by the Kitchener Memorial Scholarship Trust Bill, which was introduced in the House of Representatives yesterday. The bill was read a first time. The Attorney-General (the Hon. H. G. R. Mason) explained that a gift had been provided some years ago by Sir Heaton Rhodes as the nucleus of a fund for the benefit of sons of soldiers and their 'dependants and for their education. It was desired to create a permanent trustee, and therefore the bill vested the fund in the Public Trustee. The bill appoints the donor and the Director of Education as Advisory Trustees. The award of scholarships available under the bill, and their value and conditions, are to be at the discretion of the advisory trustees. Those to whom the scholarships may be awarded are past or present members or sons of such members of the armed forces engaged on active service in any war and who were domiciled in New Zealand on enlistment. Persons continuously resident in New Zealand for not less than three years immediately before the award of the scholarship are eligible. Every scholarship is to be held at the college established by, or in connexion with, the University of New Zealand and providing higher education in subjects re’ating to agriculture. Except in special circumstances, the scholarships are to be awarded alternately for tenure at a college in the South Island and a college in the North Island.