MEDICAL STUDENT LOANS.
SCHEME AT DUNEDIN.
CHEQUE FOR £ISOO FOR FUND.
[BY TELEGRAPH.—OWN CORRESPONDENT.] DUNEDIN, Wednesday.
At a meeting of the Otago University Council yesterday a cheque for £ISOO was received from tho dean of tho medical faculty for the recently-established medical students loan fund.
The vice-chancellor, Mr. W. J. Morrell, said the fund had now reached £2OOO and the interest on the capital would be devoted to loans to students, selected by a committee, who had passed their second professional examination, but who would have difficulty in proceeding with their course owing to financial deficiencies.
The council was appointed trustee of the funjl, which in time will make it much easier for really able students marked out for the medical profession to continue their studies. The council decided to express its great gratitude (o Sir Lindo Ferguson and the public-spirited anonymous donors to the fund.
Dr. J. Fitzgerald said he hopod the fund would later on bo extended to arts studenta.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20364, 19 September 1929, Page 12
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