Junior Chambers To Bring Malayan Schoolboy To N.Z.

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28619, 23 June 1958, Page 7

Junior Chambers To Bring Malayan Schoolboy To N.Z.

(New Zealand Press Association)

DUNEDIN, June 22. The Junior Chambers of Commerce in Otago and Southland will offer a one-year scholarship to a Singapore high school student. This was decided at the week-end by the region’s annual conference at Queenstown. Included in the approved remit was that the chambers should bear the cost in proportion to their size, and raise the money over two years if necessary. Gore delegates expressed disapproval, as they already had plans for bringing a foreign student to the country. An Oamaru amendment that a university graduate be brought instead for a post-graduate course was lost. Oamaru’s views were that a high school boy on returning to his own country would have much less influence. Mr T. N. Johnston, of . Dunedin, who was later elected regional governor, said that the scheme

Dunedin had instituted last year in bringing a Thai high school boy to New Zealand had been an undoubted success. The youth, Thana Na Nagora, had been offered a scholarship to a leading American university after spending last year at the Otago Boys’ High School. He was spending an additional year at the school at his father’s expense and his family’s wish.