Scholarship Fund

For Fijians

£25,000 Donated by Morris Hedstrom Ltd.

SUVA, Sept. 15.

A SPECIAL general meeting of share holders in Morris Hedstrom Ltd. was held to consider the proposal of the directors that a sum of £25,000 be given from the company’s funds, for the pur pose of establishing an annual scholar ship for Fijians. Shareholders (repre senting £180,000) unanimously approved the plan.

The fund will provide, each year, a scholarship worth £2OO per annum, with a tenure of three years,.to assist selected members of the Fijian race to complete their education at a University.

The death, in Victoria, of the Rev. T.

Watt Leggatt, has been announced. He gave long service to the Presbyterian Overseas Mission in the New Hebrides, finally retiring because of ill-health. He was 85 when he died.