INSPECTION OF T. V. A. PROJECT

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 266, 10 November 1945, Page 4

INSPECTION OF T. V. A. PROJECT

REHABILITATION OVERSEAS BURSARY

(P.A.) Parliament Blds., Nov. 8. Two months' inspection of the T.V.A. project in the United States is being made available to two ex-ser-vicemen, both engineering students, under the rehabilitation overseas bursary scheme. Twenty-six of these bursaries were granted during September in subjects ranging from post-graduate economics to entomology, two years’ course in which has been granted ore ex-serviceman at either Cambridge or the Imperial College, London. Another ex-serviceman is to take three a months’ course in agricultural machinery in .the United States, while another is to study for a year in child welfare at London University. Overseas bursaries granted by the Rehabilitation Board, as at September 30, totalled 125. Altogether 2627 exservicemen and women had by September 30 received some form ol educational assistance, 2235 being returned from abroad. Apart from Iversens bursaries, full-lime bursaries have been granted to 704 men and women. No fewer than 161 subjects are now covered, ranging from accountancy to zoology. Accountancy still leads comfortably in favouritism, there being 668 ex-servicemen and women taking this subject.