NATIONAL SCHOLARSHIPS.

Manawatu Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 7924, 18 February 1904, Page 2

NATIONAL SCHOLARSHIPS.

The Stupid Salary Limit.

Sir R. Stout Speaks Out.

(Per Press Associatibn.) ". - Wellington, Yesteaxfa-fv • JJunng his opening remark* at the* nTT S SeDate s°-^ Ch«.«llor Sir Robert Stout made reference to the position in regard to the new national scholarships. He said he regretted to see such limitations as were imposed by the Act, whereby children of parent * Having an. income of more than J8250' were mehgible under such limitation. He* thought it might work grave injustice. Penalising children of people who »r» rich was just as indefensible as penalisLur children whose parents' saWfluctiiafcii from year to year. A youth of 19 may be poor and his parents (if alive) poor, though at the period of his.being eligible to compete for junior scholarships his.: parents may have had over __250 of income. Moreover, as senior scholarship* . are only open to the junior scholars an*. Education Board scholars, and there is no restriction of incoure ' in the casa. of * the latter, ant : element of inequality is intrdAica* between two natural channels to senior : University scholarships. Statute afeo penalises children of parent.'';wh»__*y " have large families, for a parent with a large family and over £250 a year may not be able to give any of hischiMnm' secondary school educationor Unirßr--sity education. Can it. have been th* ; intention of the legislature to encourage* limiting of the birth-rate in the colony? If the principle affirmed in this statuta were applied to primary schools it WouH ' mvolvo destruction of free education.