HONOURED BY QUEEN CITY
Sfil JAMES AND LADY GUNSON. SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDED IN EXMAYOR’S name; (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND Last Night. The good work done by Sir James and Lady Gunson will be publicly recognised next Monday, when • a presentation ceremony will be held at the Town Hall. Sir James will be presented with a silver model of the new museum building now being erected in the Domain as a war' memorial. The model is true to scale and stands on a bronze pedestal. An illuminated address will also be presented' to Sir James and a baby grand piano to Lady Gunson. The committee in charge of the presentation has decided, with the consent and approval of Sir James, to devote the remainder of the funds to the establishment of a University scholarship in Agriculture to be known vas the Sir James Gunson scholarship. For this purpose there is a sum of £I2OO available, which with the Government subsidy brings the total to £2400. This means that the scholarship will have an annual value of over £125. The scholarship which will be open to New Zealand students, will be tenable at Auckland University College .
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Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 2298, 17 November 1925, Page 7
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