TOWN BOYS AT LINCOLN

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30553, 23 September 1964, Page 20

TOWN BOYS AT LINCOLN

More Bursaries Wanted

More financial help is needed for town boys taking nohdegree courses at Lincoln College, members of the college council agreed yesterday. The council is to continue representations to the Government on the subject. About 90 per cent of New Zealand first-year students taking degree courses this year at the college had bursaries or some other financial help, but only about 50 per cent of those taking diploma or other non-degree courses, the registrar (Mr H. G. Hunt) told the council. Mr D. S. Max said the two yeahs’ farm experience required of boys taking certain courses meant, for a town boy, a job on a farm at a wage of £8 or £9 a week, out of which he had to save enough to pay his way through the course. The temptation to take on something else with a bigger salary was very great. “Firms and other organisations have been very good in granting bursaries and in other ways, but Government help too is needed,” said Mr Max.

The deputy chairman (Mr A. Henderson) thought consideration should at least be given to providing a bursary for the second year of a course when an academically unqualified boy had succeeded in passing the first year’s examinations. The chairman (Mr T. D. J. Holderness) said the council had made representations previously oh this question, and would continue to do so.