WAR BURSARIES

Otago Witness, Issue 3331, 16 January 1918, Page 52

WAR BURSARIES

REGULATIONS GAZETTED. The regulations governing the granting of war bursaries to the children of dead or disabled soldiers have been gazetted as under: — (1) A bursary may be awarded under these regulations to a young person of either sex who is certified by the War Pensions Board to be the dependent of a member of the Now Zealand Expeditionary Forces who has been killed through active military service, or who, as the result of such service, has suffered disablement tho nature and extent of which, in the opinion of the board, warrants the award of a bursary 'to the dependent, and —(a) who is qualified to receive free education at technical classes other than the classes of a technical high school; or (b) who is qualified to hold a free place at a secondary school, a district high school, or a technical high school; or (c) who, being under the age of 19 on the nearest first December, is qualified, to receive (1) a university bursary, or (2) an educational bursary. (2) A young person who is qualified under one of the paragraphs (a), (b), or (c) above, and has accordingly been admitted to free education or to a free place, or has been awarded a University or an educational bursary, shall, so long as he complies with the regulations pertaining to such free place or bursary, receive a monetary grunt in aid of necessary incidental expenditure incurred during tho period of his attendance, as follows: If qualified under paragraph (a), an allowance of £1 10s for each year in which the requirements of a free place are fulfilled, provided that the allowance may be increased to £3 if a grouped course approved under the re-o-ulations for technical instruction and occupying not less than 400 hours a year is taken; if qualified under paragraph (b), an allowance at the rate of £5 per annum; if qualified under paragraph (c), an allowance at tho rate of £lO per annum. (3) If the opinion of the Director of Education a young person to whom these regulations apply is obliged to live away from home in order to prosecute his studies, he shall further bo entitled to receive, in quarterly or half-yearly instalments, by way of boarding allowance, a payment not exceeding £ls for any year if ho regularly attends 3ay classes constituting a grouped course approved under tho regulations for technical instruction and occupying not less than four hundred hours a year, or a payment at tho rate of £3O per annum if ho regularly attends a secondary school, a dis-. trict high school, or a technical high school, or if ho is the holder of a. university or an educational bursary; provided that in any case the arrangements made in respect to his board and lodging shall first be approved by the authorities of the school attended. (4) Where the young person lives at home and is. in tho opinion of the Director of Education, obliged to travel by moans other than rail more than four miles daily each way in order to prosecute his studies, ho shall if ho regularly attends day classes as aforesaid be entitled to a refund of the amount actually and necessarily expended by him in such travelling up to £5 per annum, or up to £lO per annum if he regularly attends a secondary school, a district high school, or a technical high school, or is the holder of a university or an educational bursary. - (5) A bursary under these regulations shall Hot bo tcnablo after the holder attains the age of 23 years.