£1000 Fellowship Gift By Maoris

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30050, 7 February 1963, Page 16

£1000 Fellowship Gift By Maoris

(New Zealand Press Association)

WAITANGI, February 6.

A post-graduate fellowship to be awarded alternately to Maori and European university graduates was announced by Sir Turi Carroll in his speech to the Queen at the Waitangi Day celebrations tonight.

The value of the fellowship will be up to £lOOO, and it will be known as the Queen Elizabeth Post-graduate Fellowship. Sir Turi Carroll said: “We believe it to be in accordance with Your Majesty’s desire that in the acceptance of this gift, you should wish it to be devoted ,tc the interests of your subjects in New Zealand

“The gift of the Maori ; people, therefore, will take the form of a fellowship to be known with Your Majesty’s permission, as the : Queen Elizabeth Post-Gradu- . ate Fellowship.” 1 The fellowship will be awarded alternately to Maori ’ and European graduates in ; equal numbers ait a rate equivalent to one award , every year. Opera Rehearsal The cast of the New Zealand Opera Company had a dress rehearsal of “A Unicorn for Christmas” before 67 members of the Sadler’s Wells company. It was the last rehearsal before the Royal performance of the opera tomorrow night.

After a few early technical hitches there was nothing to worry about. The applause at the end suggested that the performance had passed the judgment of its professional audience. Trout For Yacht

Good luck has aided two fishermen catching trout on Lake Taupo for the Royal yacht Britannia. In three days, Mr P. J. Burstall, Assistant Conservator of Wild Life at Rotorua, and Mr D. Main, an Internal Affairs Department ranger, have taken 59 fish.

Tomorrow, Mr Burstall will deliver 30 fish to the yacht. Queen’s Dress Pink and green, with white accessories, were worn by the Queen this evening for the celebrations of the anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi She wore a pink and green printed taffeta dress with centrally draped overskirt and a light organza coat also in a pink and green floral print Her close-fitting hat was of pink silk petals. The Queen carried tf white bandbag and wore white shoes and gloves. Her jewellery was a pearl necklace and a pearl and diamond brooch. National Holiday The declaration of Waitangi Day as a national holiday was urged by Sir Turi Carroll tonight in his speech to the Queen He said he could conceive no better manner in which the day could be commemorated as an occasion of

pride for the Maori people in their accession to the British Crown. In Crowd At 92 One of the oldest members of the crowd that met the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh at Waitangi today was Mr A. 1. B. Wilkinson. He is 92.