Generous Offer Disregarded

Northern Advocate, 31 January 1939, Page 3

Generous Offer Disregarded

t Per Press Association. Copyright .l CHRISTCHURCH, This Day.

A statement that the University of •New Zealand would be in an undignified position if Mr. Arthur Sims, who had made an offer of £SOOO toward the establishment of a research scholarship in memory of the contributions to science of Lord Rutherford, returned to New Zealand to find that nothing had been done, was made by Mr. C. T. Aschman at a meeting of the Canterbury University College Council yesterday.

Mr. Sim’s offer was made on condition that the Government should be prepared to make a similar contribution to the scholarship fund. The conditions of the scholarship are that it should be of an annual value of about £4OO, that it should be tenable for three years, that it should t>e awarded for outstanding merit or promise in physics, chemistry or mathematics, and that it should be open to graduates of the University of New Zealand or graduates of any other University resident in New Zealand. On the motion of Mr. Aschman and Mr. A. O. Wilkinson, the council agreed to ask the Registrar of the University of New Zealand, Mr. I. F. McKenzie, what was the present position about 'the Government subsidy for Mr. Sims’s gift.