WEMBLEY EXHIBITION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19047, 18 December 1923, Page 7

WEMBLEY EXHIBITION

A FELLOWSHIP FORMED, NOTABLE SCHOLARSHIP SCHEME. Press As bo elation —By Telegraph— Copyrigrt LONDON, December 16. A fellowship has ■ been formed in _ connection with the Wembley Exhibition. All British citizens are eligible. The subscription of two guineas annually entitles to a certificate of membership and a ticket of free admission to the exhibition. Tire fellowship will institute a number of prizes designed to extend the cause of Imperial education, and also scholarships each of £IOOO. The Prince of Wales has accepted the presidency of the fellowship.—Sydney Sun Cable. AN IMPERIAL OUTLOOK. THE PRINCE OF WALES’S MESSAGE. LONDON, December 17. (Received Dec. 17, at 8.10 p.m.) The formation is announced ’of an Empire Exhibition Fellowship, the object of which is to carry out a scheme of Imperial education to stimulate Empire trade, and assist in the better distribution of the Empire’s population. The fellowship will grant a number of Empire scholarships of £IOOO each, which will be available for young citizens of the United Kingdom to settle in one of the dominions and for young citizens of the dominions to undertake a university or technical education course in the Home Country. In either case there is the option to stay in their own country and use the scholarship for a start in life. The Prince of Wales, in accepting the presidency, writes: “ I think that many thousands throughout the Empire wish to do something more for the Exhibition’s success than visit it once or twice. The fellowship’s programme, its Imperial education scheme, its ■ settlement of scholarships, its provision of season tickets to the Exhibition, are all intended to meet these cases. It is hoped to see tire membership grow in every part of tire Empire.” Sir Henry M'Mahon, chairman of the Executive Committee, made the statement that “the fellowship lasts only for the period of the Exhibition, but we expect that the membership certificate signed by the Prince of Wales will be a reminder in future years of responsibilities to the Empire.” The fellowship will be organised in three sections—namely, dominions, London, and the rest of tire United Kingdom. Sir Haronet Share has been appointed president, Lieut.-colonel Sir H. L. Galway committeeman • representing the dominions group, and Mr Frank Fox general secretary. —A. and N.Z. Cable. Sir Hamnet Holditch Share, K.8.E., has been gentleman usher in ordinary to His Majesty the King’since 1922. He was born in 1864, and in 1918 married a daughter of the late liea.r-Admiral Waiter Bridges, of Victoria, He entered the Royal iNavy in 1880, and has seen a .great deal of service abroad. He was secretary to Admiral Jellicoe from 1911 right on through the Great War and afterwards till 192 U. He served in the Battle of J utland. Lieutenant-General Sir ■ Henry L. Galway, K.C.M.G., was governor of South Australia from 1914 to 1920. In earlier life ho saw much service in Burmuda and Nigeria, and was for some years Governor of St Helena. Mr Frank Fox, 0.8. E., is a journalist and author on the staff of the Morning. Post. He was born in Adelaide in 1874 and edited the Australian Workman in the early days of the Australian Labour Party. 'He was at one time acting editor of the Sydney Bulletin and founded and edited the Lone Hand. He joined the Morning Post staff in 1909, and was their war correspondent during the Balkan war, and with the Belgian array Airing the first‘phase of the Great War. He was wounded twice in the battle of the Somme.