PLEA FOR MORE SCHOLARSHIPS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23364, 2 December 1937, Page 12

PLEA FOR MORE SCHOLARSHIPS

There could be no real contribution to the development of science in New Zealand unless the best of the Dominion’s students went overseas to pursue their studies, said -Dr J. Right (rector of Canterbury College), speaking at a function held by the Canterbury branch of the Royal Society of New Zealand in honour of Lord Rutherford, Accepting this fact. Dr Hight proceeded, there was good ground for pressing for an increase in the number of overseas scholarships and grants in aid thereof. Today, many brilliant students, some of' them doubtless potential Lord Rutherfords, had to be passed over in the selection of candidates, because of the extremely limited number of scholarships available. In Lord Rutherford’s time one science scholarship was available. To-day, after 40 years, there were only two. Another point was that 40 years ago money had more than double its present purchasing power, yet the emoluments of scholarships, measured ii terms of money, remained very much the same. Thus, not only should there be more scholarships, but the monetary 'alue of each should be increased.