OFFER OF £5000

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23259, 31 January 1939, Page 10

OFFER OF £SOOO

RUTHERFORD MEMORIAL DELAY IN ACCEPTANCE QUESTION OF STATE SUBSIDY [by TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] CHRISTCHURCH, Monday 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. O. I. Aschman at a meeting of the Canterbury University College Council to-day. Mr. Sims' offer was made on condition that the Government should be prepared to make a similar contribution to the scholarship fund. The conditions for the scholarship are that it should bo of an annual value of about £4OO, that it should bo tenable for three years, that it should bo awarded for outstanding merit or promise in physics, chemistry or mathematics, and that it should be open to graduates of the University of Now 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 March 11 last year. Ihe Minister of Education, the Hon. P. Eraser, had suggested that it would be wise if it were a New Zealand scholarship, and in accordance with his 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 tho registrar of the University of New Zealand, Mr. I. F. McKenzie, what was the present position about the Government subsidy for Mr. Sims gift. _