SANDERS MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP.
FOR NEW ZEALAND-BORN BRITISH BOYS. AUCKLAND, June 7. Tho conditions to govern. v the Sanders Memorial Scholarship were agreed upon today at a meeting of the General Committee, at which the Mayor presided. The final scheme approved was: Tho Government to be asked to commission a merchant sailing ship as a training ship, to be named tho W. E. Sanders, to be employed in carrying cargo from and to New Zealand, the vessel to carry as apprentices New Zealanders of British parentage desirous of entering the merchant service as officers,_ places to be retained for Sanders Momorial Scholarship boys and to be increased in accordance with tho state of the fund. The amount available for the scholarship is to be invested by the trustees until the arrangements for the proposed training ship are completed. In the event of this not being done within two years after the declaration of peace, the trustees to be authorised to apply the money subscribed for advancement in the mercantile marine of New Zealand-born boys of British parentage. The accepted scheme also provided for scholarship examinations to bo hold annually, and be availablo to all New Zealand-born boys of British parentage.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3352, 12 June 1918, Page 37
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