TARANAKI SCHOLARSHIP FUND

Taranaki Daily News, 17 June 1930, Page 4

TARANAKI SCHOLARSHIP FUND

ITS RETENTION IN PROVINCE. . DISCUSSIONS' IN HAVvERA. ■ “A deliberate slight on the University Senate,” was how Mr. W. G. Simpson described at last night’s meeting of the Hawera Borough Council a resolution received from the Stratford Borough Council requesting the Hawera Council to support the movement opposing any diversion of the Opaku trust funds. “The council is not in the position to give an . opinion on the subject,” he said, “and I consider it a reflection by one public body on another. I am surprised that the Mayor of Stratford should support such a resolution without any evidence. Before we lend any support we should request the Stratford Council to supply further evidence, for we cannot support any movement we know nothing about. The whole thing seems illogical.” Mr. Simpson moved that the matter bo referred back to the' Stratford Council for further information. There was a movement afoot to deprive Taranaki of the exclusive rights to the money from the reserve, said Mr. North, who thought the council should support the Stratford resolution in order that the Government might see Taranaki was neither asleep nor willing to see the scholarship money used for other purposes. It was highly desirable that the funds should be retained by Taranaki, said the Mayor. He contended the district would be making a grave mistake if it allowed funds to be appropriated without strenuous opposition. He agreed that the money should be used, said ■ Mr. Simpson, but it could have been used to advantage years ago. Had the funds been made available Mew

Zealand would have been reaping the, reward of the education given. . I After further discussion the motion] was lost and it was decided to endorse the Stratford council’s motion. The matter was also discussed at last night’s meeting of the Hawera Technical High School Board, the chairman, Mr. R. 8. Sage, reporting that a meeting of interested bodies would be held in the school on Thursday, when the question - would be further disMr. A. Lees stated that the lion. 8.

G. Smith had advised them to drop the question of scholarships for Massey college in the meantime, and find something in Taranaki itself to spend funds on. Mr.. J. W. Harding said the position was that the Opaku endowment was the only fund that was S ro^l n &* If the endowment were used for Massey College .scholarships : others would want a share of it. . . On the chairman’s commenting that Mr. Smith’s suggestion was worth discussing at the conference the discussion lapsed.