SCIENCE SCHOLARSHIP

Evening Star, Issue 24003, 30 September 1941, Page 3

SCIENCE SCHOLARSHIP

THE RUTHERFORD MEMORIAL FOUNDATION GIFT OF £IO,OOB (P.A.) CHRISTCHURCH, Sept. 29. A gift of £IO,OOO to establish al science scholarship in memory of Lord Rutherford has been made -to Canterbury University College by Mr Arthur Sims, of Christchurch and London'. Mr Sims, like Lord Rutherford, was a graduate of Canterbury College. Mr Sims’s gift, notice of which was received bv the college council at its meeting to-day, doubles the amount of liia previous offer of £5,000, made three years ago. ■ In March, 1938, Mr Sims had offered the college £5,000 towards-a fund, for a research scholarship in meniory oB Lord Rutherford, Mr C.- T. Aschmaa said. It had been Mr Sims’s hope'ht) that time that the Government of New, Zealand would supply another £5,000, making the total endowment '£10,000., “ The years have gone by,” Mr Aschman said, “ and nothing has eventuated from the _ Government, so Mr Sims has taken it on himself’to find the whole £IO,OOO. There is no need for me to add any explanation of, what such a very handsome gift means to ms at Canterbury College, where. Lord Rutherford did his first work. This gift from Mr-Sims wtlE come as a very fine means ;of perpetuating the memory of one of th* greatest men New Zealand has ever turned out.”