SCHOLARSHIP IN AVIATION
GOVERNMENT SUBSIDY APPROVED MEMORIAL TO MR J. C. MERCER (P.A.). WELLINGTON, Jan. 23. Cabinet has approved a pound for pound subsidy, with a maximum of £2OOO, on money raised to found a scholarship in aviation in memory of Mr J. C. Mercer. This was announced to-day by the Minister in charge of the Air Department (Mr F. Jones). The scholarship will be administered by the University of New Zealand, and will be available for post-gradual# work associated with aeronautics. 1 The fund raised to commemorate the services of Mr Mercer now totals about £l6OO. Mr Mercer lost his life when the aircraft in which he was travelling as a passenger crashed in the rear of Mount Hope on June 30, 1944. The fund to commemorate the services that he gave to aviation wtt! sponsored by the New Zealand Ai« Pilots’ Guild. 9
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25091, 24 January 1947, Page 6
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