OFFER OF £5000 SCHOLARSHIP

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 31 January 1939, Page 4

OFFER OF £SOOO SCHOLARSHIP

IN MEMORY OF LORD RUTHERFORD QUESTION OF GOVERNMENT SUBSIDY lUmie'l Press Association CHRISTCHURCH, 30th January. That the University of New Zealand would be in an undignified position if Mr Arthur Sims, who had made an offer of £6OOO 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 bee.i done was contended by Mr C. T. Aschman at a meeting of the Canterbury University College Council today. Mr Sims’s offer was made on condition that the Government should be prepared to make a similar contribution to the scholarship fund. Conditions for the scholarship are that it should be of an annual value of about £4OO, and it should Ln tenable fo» three years, that it should be 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. Raising the subject at the council meeting, Mr Aschman said that Mr Sims had made his offer to Canterbury College on 11th March last year. The Minister of Education, the Hon. P. Fraser, had suggested that it would be wise if it were a New' Zealand scholarship and, in accordance with the suggestion, the council had passed the matter over to the University Senate. However, nothing had been done. 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 a Government subsidy for Mr Sims’s gift.