A BEQUEST
SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM. (Pei Press Association —Copyright). ASHBURTON, September 14. Under the will of the late Robert Bell. Chairman of Directors of the Ashburton Guardian, the sum of £SOOO is given oil trust to provide yearly travelling scholarships of £loO for students who have taken a journalistic degree at the School of Journalism, Canterbury College, established some years ago as the result of a benefaction by Mr Bell. The present bequest expresses the wish that the holders travel out of New Zealand as extensively as possible, devoting as much attention ns the bequest is practicable to irrigation projects, tree planting, improved agricultural methods and other subjects of interest to farmers of Ashburton. A bequest of £ICOJ is also made to assist pupils to attend the school of journalism.
Several pictures were bequested to the Robert Macdougall Art Gallery at Christchurch.
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Hokitika Guardian, 14 September 1937, Page 4
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