Territorians Support

Ng Scholarship

Fund

Territorians Support Needed

MORE details have come to hand of the Scholarship Fund which will be provided by the New Guinea Women’s Association" of Melbourne. Their almost unused ROW Fund (£820) will be a nucleus.

It says much for these women that they are going ahead with a scheme that has defeated other New Guinea bodies which flourish, or have flourished, in Australia during the past four years.

It was suggested last year that all these associations should, under the guidance of the Pacific Territories’ Association, pool .their resources for a scholarship fund for New Guinea children. It was universally believed that this was one of the most sincere ways of paying lasting respect to the men of New Guinea who had given their lives in the war. However, legal difficulties appear to have killed that scheme in its infancy.

It is interesting, therefore, to see the Melbourne women working on their own account and shouldering what, after all, is a fairlv large burden. Their cause should be supported by every Terri torian—not only by those who are resi dent, temporarily or otherwise, in the Aus tralian State of Victoria.

The secretary of the Association (Miss Dorothy Stewart) writes as follows: “We are, as yet, onlv battling with the prelim inary details; this involves numerous in terviews with officers of the Victorian De partment of Education.

“Eventually, the Perpetual Executors & Trustees’ Association of Australia Ltd., will administer the scholarship fund. They will pay to the head-master, or mistress, of a school chosen by the winner (from an approved list of schools issued by the Department of Education) a certain sum of money towards payment of school fees.

The sum of money paid will, of course, depend upon the success of our scheme.

The list of schools includes all leading Victorian schools in town and country.

“The children competing, in the first instance, will be children who lost their fathers during the war, and when no fur

ther applications are received from child ren in this group, the scholarship will be open for competition among children of any returned serviceman and woman who is resident in the Territory of New Guinea.

Then, eventually, when all children elig ible under the first and second groups are beyond the age limit of years, the scholarship will be available to all child ren of European parents who are resident in New Guinea.”

DETAILS of how and where to apply for entry forms for the scholarship will be announced in the “PIM” at a later date. It is. hoped that the first scholarship will be available for 1947.

The Association will be holding func tions to raise funds, and members of the public may also contribute. Donations should be sent'to the Secretary, N.G.

Women’s Assn., 7 Wilson St., Moonee Ponds, Vic., W. 4. Further donations re ceived in June were as follows; N. G. Memorial Scholarship Fund.

£ s. d.

Previously acknowledged to June 7 43 1 0 F. & W. €. Rowe, Camberwell, Vic 5 0 0 “Pacific Islands Monthly” ... 500 £53 1 0