GENEROUS BEQUEST

Greymouth Evening Star, 20 October 1939, Page 5

GENEROUS BEQUEST

TO OTAGO HIGH SCHOOLS. [per press association.] DUNEDIN, October 19. Mr G. C. Proudfoot, who attended the Otago Boys’ High School from 1865 to 1868, has shown his affection for his old school by making provision in his will for the setting aside of £2500 to provide scholarships at both the Otago Boys’ and Girls’ High Schools. Mr Proudfoot, who left no relatives, died last month, and at today’s meeting of the board of governors of the schools notification of the bequest was received from a firm of solicitors.

It was slated that the legacy was one of the most outstanding received by the board. The will provides for the award to each of the schols, on the results of the university scholarship examination, of (a) one scholarship of £25 per annum, tenable for three years at the University of Otago; (b) two scholarships of £lO per annum, tenable for one year, at the high school concerned; (c) the balance (if any) of the annual income to be used in giving a prize or prizes for such a subject or subjects as the trustee may think fit, and in particular in the case of the boys’ school loi gymnastics, athletics, sports, cadet work, and especially for shooting, and in the case of the girls school foi gymnastics, athletics, and sports, it ‘was decided that the scholarships should become tenable next year.