THE LATE LORD MILNER

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12431, 27 April 1926, Page 7

THE LATE LORD MILNER

MEMORIAL FUND FACILITIES TO CONTRIBUTE NEW ZEALANDERS MAY PAR. TICIPATE The Right Hon. the Prime Ministei has received a communication from the High Commissioner with reference to an appeal being made in connection with the Milner Memorial Fund. A small committee, or which Lord Balfour has been chairman, and Mr L. S. Amery, Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs, vice-chairman ? has for some months been considering on liehalt of a larger committee comprising most men in public life in the United Kingdom, what would be the most appropriate way of honouring the late Lord Milner’s memory. The conclusion arrived at was that a system of travelling and research fellowships anrt prizes for the study of questions connected with Empire development and social amelioration would be most appropriate, not only because he regard-

ed these two groups of questions as inseparably connected and believed that their successful solution depended on study and dissemination of more accurate knowledge, but also because he himself owed all his chances early in life to the scholarships he won and was always tremendously interested in k helping forward younger men and giving them a chance. The scheme will be a very elastic one, including at the one end of the scale travelling fellowships costing tip to £SOO a year sbr students visiting the Dominions end devoting themselves to some special branch of economic and study, and on the other han<J comparatively small prizes to stimulate interest and sufficient just to help a poor student through his course or to enable a young author to get a hook published which might not otherwise find its publisher. The committee is very anxious to raise a really large fund, and to secure support from every part of the Empire, and it is hoped that the idea of the scheme will commend itself.

The first few hundred pounds of the fund raised will be devoted to an appropriate memorial tablet in Westminster Abbey. It was further stated that at a meeting of the executive committee the question of eligibility to the prizes and fellowships was raised and that all agreed that there would he no limitation to residents in the United Kingdom, but that the idea would he to encourage the study of these Empire and social questions as far os the money available would permit, by students from every part of the Empire. Tlie Right Hon. the Prime Minister feels that the obj 7ct for which the money is being raised will appeal to many New Zealanders, and has therefore given instructions that facilities should be given for those who wish to contribute to the fund to forward amounts to the Department of Internal Affairs for remission to the High Commissioner, who will pay the amounts donated over to the trustees of the fund in Great Britain.