EDUCATIONAL AID EX-SERVICE MEN AND WOMEN

Wanganui Chronicle, 21 January 1947, Page 4

EDUCATIONAL AID EX-SERVICE MEN AND WOMEN

By the end of November last some form of educational assistance had been given to 17,732 ex-service men women under the Rehabilitation Board’s schemes, state the latest statistical returns from the Rehabilitation Department. Of these 475 were granted post-graduate or other specialist buisaries to study overseas. Apart from fees, books, passage fares, and other expenses, bursars receive in most cases an annual subsistence allowance of £250 sterling for single men and £328 sterling for married men.

By far the largest single group among th e 475 comprised those doing post-graduate studies in medicine, the number in that group being 149. Others are: Agricultural courses 11, arts degrees 20, agriculture and townplanning 12, arts and handwork 15, accountancy and commerce 28, dental post-graduate 13, dramatic art 6, engineering 20, education 6, forestry 9, fine arts and sculpture 3, horticulture 1, .journalism 5, languages 4, law 8, medical auxiliaiy services-11, music 20, nursing 12, optical 4, public and local administration 6, doctorate of philosophy 36, physical training 15, science (all branches) 10, social courses 2, aerial surveying 1, theology 9 trades courses 10, veterinary science 19. wool courses 9.

Other educational assistance given comprised: Full-time bursaries at New Zealand universities (including subsistence allowances of £3 3s a week for single men and £5 5s for married men), 2753; fees and books, 3910; renewals of grants. 87; miscellaneous small grants, 560; part-time facilities granted by district rehabilitation offices, 9947 During November itself 837 applications for assistance were approved, including 24 overseas bursaries.