TRENTHAM SCHOLARSHIPS
£70,000 GIVEN IN 20 YEARS FUND WOUND UP WELLINGTON, November 23. Tho Trentham Scholarship Fund, from which over £70,000 has been distributed during the past 20 years in the form of bursaries to children of deceased and disabled soldiers and others who served with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force during the Great War, was wound up at a final meeting of the Executive Committee to-day. It was stated that 3.704 bursaries had been awarded, pror iding secondary education for 1,381 children of deceased and disabled men with excellent results to benoliciaries and the community. 'flic sum of £221 Ids had been made available during 1939 to enable 21 bur-
sars to complete their studies, it was stated. Any balance, less administration costs, would be paid over to the Canteen and Regimental Trust Fund Board.
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Evening Star, Issue 23123, 24 November 1938, Page 20
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