RHODES SCHOLARSHIPS.
NEW ZEALAND’S HIGH STANDARD (BY TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION.) WELLINGTON, Jan. 29. ■ As was announced in connection ; with last election, the Dominion is henceforth to choose two Rhodes scliol- . ars annually. This decision was conveyed to .the University of New Zea- ' land in cable from London on November 4 last. Writing more fully to the Registrar on the matter, the sccietary of the Rhodes Trust states: “The trustees have long felt the urgency of the claim of New Zealand to an additional scholarship, as will he seen from figures which wi’l be published in the now edition of “Oxford ot To-day,"’ which is now in the press. New Zealand stands at- the head of the record of Rhodes scholars from the Dominions. The trustees are confident that New Zealand will he able to send two si no,ars in future, with the same inteTectual, moral and physical qualities as she has sent them in the past, and that her scholars will continue to be what they have been, a credit both to New Zea’and and to th e Empire.”
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 30 January 1926, Page 6
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