NAVAL SCHOLARSHIPS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1222, 2 September 1911, Page 9

NAVAL SCHOLARSHIPS.

The encouragement offered and oppoiv tunitios open to New Zealand youths desiring to beeoino naval officers were mentioned by Mr. J. Duncan in Parliament recently.' Ho suggested that the Government might consider the desirability or establishing naval scholarships. It was replied that, arrangements aro alreadv, and have bed for some years, iu existence whereby the Government of New Zealand, in common with the Governments of certain other British possessions, is empowered to nominate a •limited number of cadets for entry at tho Koy.il Naval College at Osborne, through which all naval commissioned ollicer.l must first pass. The Admiralty arrangements provido for two nominations annually for New Zealand candidates who satisfy tlio conditions, and hitherto this number has been sufficient to meet tho demand. Copies of ill? regulations applicable may bo obtainod from the Kdtieation Department, which has chargw ol' the mattor. It. is estimated that for a colonial candidate the total cost of Ilia wholo course of Osborne, two voars, at Dartmouth two years, on tho training cruiser eight months—together with any further allowances iiecowsnry l;o----foro tlio" rank of acting Kub-lieutvnaiit is reached, would approximately amount to not less than ,CS0(). ScholanOiips of thin value tho Government is not at present p&oparal to ofi'cr.