Work Of Imperial Relations Trust

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30338, 14 January 1964, Page 2

Work Of Imperial Relations Trust

New Zealand bursars who have visited Britain on Imperial Relations Trust fellowships, travel bursaries and grants have as their guest in the Dominion the woman who arranged their study visits. She is Miss Judith Jackson, secretary of the trust since its inception in 1937, who is in the Dominion at the invitation of the former bursars.

When Mr Baldwin was Prime Minister of Britain Miss Jackson was secretary to Mrs Baldwin. The trust was founded during that time by an anonymous gift, “for the purpose of strengthening the ties that bind together the United Kingdom and certain other independent countries of the Cbmmonwealth.” “The trustees never make grants to enable an individual to improve his or her own technical or academic qualifications,” Miss Jackson said in Christchurch last evening. “It is for those who in the course of daily life are in touch with large numbers of others.” The fields in which the trust is administered, include journalism, broadcasting, education and trade unionism. One fellowship is awarded each year to Australia, New Zealand and India to enable an experienced teacher from

each of these countries to spend a year at the London University Institute of Education. A senior lectureship at the institute is also awarded in consecutive years to Australia, Canada and New Zealand. Travelling bursaries are awarded to the national broadcasting organisations in Australia, Canada. India, New Zealand and Pakistan, for members of their staffs to spend six months in the United Kingdom. Similar bur-

saries enable members of the British. Broadcasting Corporation’s staff to visit these countries. Two travelling bursaries each year are awarded for one trade unionist to go to Canada and one to Australia and New Zealand for six months. Similar bursaries are offered to trade unionists from Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Periodic grants are made towards the cost of passages of teachers and university lecturers visiting independent Commonwealth countries and going from Commonwealth countries to the United Kingdom. Travel grants have also been made to members of women’s organisations, such as the British Women’s Cooperative Guild, the National Federation of -Women’s Institutes. the Scottish Women’s Rural Institutes, and the Canadian Women’s Co-opera-tive Guild. Mrs T. M. Watson, past president of the New Zealand Women’s Division of Federated Farmers, is among women from the Dominion who have gone to England under this scheme. Mrs Watson was a guest of the Women’s Institutes in England. Miss Jackson was met in Auckland by a group of former bursars. When she leaves on January 21 she will call at Colombo, Delhi, and Karachi to visit former bursary holders there, and she was in Australia on her way here. “It is most moving to have been invited to New Zealand •in this way, and my hosts have been wonderful to me,” Miss Jackson said.