NATIONAL WAR FUNDS COUNCIL

Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 177, 14 April 1923, Page 6

NATIONAL WAR FUNDS COUNCIL

BURSARIES GRANTED At the meeting of the executive •committee of the National War Funds Council, held on Thursday, the renewal of national war funds bursarips to returned soldiers whoso university courses had been interrupted by war service was reviewed for the year 19231924. Before the establishment of the Repatriation Department the National Council, recognising the disability students had suffered through their enlistment in the New Zealand Expeditionary Forces, offered assistance to soldiers who desired to continue fl'o’r university studies, and early in 1919 ‘•ducational grants were made to (59 students for a period covering from four to five years, according to thp time required to complete the course undertaken. On the establishment of the Repatriation Board, whose function was to deal with this form of repatriation, tluj council agreed to bear '‘he cost of tae bursaries till the men (elected had obtained their degrees.

Up to March 31, 1922, 42 students completed their courses, there being only two withdrawals from the university colleges, both of which were due ‘o physical disability. During the past rear 13 students obtained their diplomas —in agriculture (2), arts (3), den*strv (2), civil engineering (1), and medicine (5) —and there remain at Otago University 11 medical students now in their final year.

The reports of the professorial board being satisfactory and the conditions governing the bursaries having been complied with the National War Funds Council have granted bursaries to the following students for the vear ending March 31, 1924:—F. O. Bennett, J. H. Beaumont, Alex. Cumming, J. A. D. Ivorach, K. H. Dean, ,8. L. Geprin, A. H. Harvie, R. H. Marenday, L. H. Marshall, N. M. Matheson, and R. J. Maunsell, all of whom are in residence at the Otago Medical School, Dunedin. This allotment covers the final payments authorised by the National War Funds Council under its original schema.