Student bursaries
Sir, — I do not understand that the family of your correspondent on Student bursaries (June 12) would have to “live frugally” for the four years in which the only daughter completed an honours degree. I am a third-year female student, studying for an honours degree also, and have cost my family nothing more than if I had been working. I consider that I
live quite well; buying considerably more clothes than “pantyhose, underwear and shoes,” travelling the length of New Zealand in the last year, paying for and maintaining a car for more than a year now and living in University hostels for the last two years. A University degree wouldn’t be worth causing my family to live frugally for four years, and rm sure they would agree with me. I’m very proud of my financial independence, of the units that I (and not my family) have passed, and am grateful to parents who’ve given me the freedom to be financially independent. — Yours, etc., M. J. June 12, 1975.
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33870, 16 June 1975, Page 16
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