BEQUEST TO UNIVERSITY

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21845, 6 July 1934, Page 10

BEQUEST TO UNIVERSITY

SUM OF ABOUT £IO,OOO FUND FOR SCHOLARSHIP [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION"| - CHKISTCHUKCH, Thursday A sum of approximately £IO,OOO has been bequeathed to the University of New Zealand under the wili of Mr. Lawrence Berry Wood, of Christchurch, who died last Sunday. It was the wish of the testator that this sum ba invested and the income used to provide a research and travelling scholarship tenable by graduates of any of the constituent colleges of the University of New Zealand. The will directs that the fund to be set up be known as the L. B. Wood Travelling Scholarship Fund and stipulates that the sum shall not become available for investment until the life interest of two beneficiaries shall cease. No special field of research is stipulated.

Mr. Wood, who was born in Neidpath Castle, Peebles, m 1855, came out $o New Zealand in ISSO to be rector of the Port Chalmers High School, and after four years he was appointed chief inspector of schools in Canterbury. Owing to ill-health he retired 28 years ago. For 30 years he was the teachers' representative on the Canterbury College Board of Governors. Ho was a prominent golfer and bowler and was the oldest member of the Christchurch Golf Club. He was instrumental in starting the children's library as a branch of the Publio Library here. Mr. "Wood never married, and all his relatives live in Scotland.