GIFT OF £10,000

New Zealand Herald, Volume 82, Issue 25259, 20 July 1945, Page 7

GIFT OF £IO,OOO

EMPIRE SCHOLARSHIP NEW ZEALANDER'S OFFER LONDON. July 18 Mr Arthur Sims, a wealthy New Zealand-born business man at present living in Sussex, has offered a trust fund, which is expected to amount to £IO.OOO, to Cambridge University. The fund will endow a Sims Empire Scholarship in any subject which may be selected.

Mr' Arthur Sims

Mr Sims some years ago presented New Zealand with its first supply of radium and provided funds for the equipment of the first New Zealand surgical unit which served with the Eighth Army. Last March he offered Sir Alexander Fleming, discoverer of penicillin, an annuity in recognition of his work for humanity. :

Formerly one of New Zealand's bestknown cricketers, Mr Sims, who is a graduate of Canterbury College, toured Australia with the New Zealand team in 1899, and represented New Zealand in all the test matches during the tours by Australian teams in the Dominion in 1905 and 1910. He played for Canterbury over a long period of years. Since then, he took a prominent part in the administration of cricket both in Canterbury and throughout New Zealand, as a member of the Canterbury Cricket Association and the New Zealand Cricket Council, of both of which he is a past president. He is an honorary life member of the New Zealand Council. He was well known in business circles in Christchurch until he retired.

CASE OF CHENNAULT AMERICAN INVESTIGATION (Eecd. 6.30 p.m.) NEW YORE. July 1§ The Military Affairs Committee of th® United States Senate will investigate the resignation of the Commander of the United States Air Forces in China, Lieutenant-General Claro Chennault, says the Washington correspondent of the New York Heraldrribune. Senator Ellender (Democrat —• Louisiana), who requested the investigation, said lie wanted to know if General Stratemeyer had been appointed to replace General Chennault, because he wag a West Point graduate and General Chennault only a reservist. "I think General Chennault quit in anger," he added, "because of th® change in command. I want to know tlie effect of the resignation on the war effort in China." ' Some members of the committee be--1 lieve General Chennault's case is not merely a military matter, but has had an international political phase. PROTEST BY CEYLON ALLEGED DENIAL OF RIGHTS COLOMBO, July 18 The Ceylon State Council, by 31 votes to 17, protested against the rejection by the Colonial Secretary, Mr Oliver Stanley, of the "Sri Lanka," Bill, which the council passed. The bill demanded selfgovernment for Ceylon, including control of internal defence and shipping. The protest described Mr Stanley's rejection of the bill as a denial of th® right of the people of Ceylon to freedom and determination of their own Constitution. f

Sri Lanka is the old Angalese nam® for Ceylon.

CHARGE OF MURDER

ARRESTS IN MELBOURNE MELBOURNE, July 19 Three women and a man were arrested yesterday and charged with the murder of Corporal Vera Matilda Wiper, age 23, a member of the Women's Auxiliary of the Australian Air Force, whose body was found in a street in a Melbourne suburb on Saturday morning. The police allege that on Friday Corporal Wiper visited a house where an operation was performed, during which she died. ,1,1 Later the body was dressed and taken by car to the place where it was found by a milkman. Those arrested are a mother and daughter, a married woman and a health inspector of a suburban council. Two more women were arrested later in the dav —a woman and her daughter. The latter is also a member of the Women's Auxiliary. Australian Air Force.

FINNISH WAR INDEMNITY * LONDON, July 18 Under an agreement signed, in Heir sinki, Finland will pay Russia oO,(WP0 gold dollars between September. and September, 1946, in war damage claims.