UNIVERSITY STUDY IN U.S.
GEORGE VI FELLOWSHIP FOR NEW ZEALANDER (New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND. August 9. New Zealand has been allocated a King George VI Memorial Fellowship for university or technical study In the United States for the 1955-57 academic year. The fellowship is sponsored bv the English-Speaking Union of the United States, and it will be the first time since the scheme’s inception in 1954 that an allocation of one of the 25 fellowships has been made to New Zealand. The selection of a suitable candidate will be made by a New Zealand committee of five members. Founded "to commemorate the contnbution to British-American understanding made by King George VI,” the fellowship is open to university graduates wishing to take postgraduate studies at American universities, and to technical students wishing to take courses at similar institutions in the United States. The stipend of each fellowship is 2500 dcllars, plus tuition fees and travel expenses. All candidates for the fellowshp must be between 18 and 30 years of age on August 31. 1956. Applications will be called for later this year.
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Press, Volume XCII, Issue 27733, 10 August 1955, Page 12
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