N.G. Scholarship Fund
pp. 68-69 · Read in the full issue
Awards to be Made in Victoria Only
BECAUSE it is necessary to have £3,000 to establish a 3-year scholarship of £3O per annum in Victoria, and because the response from other States has not been very great, the New Guinea Women’s Association of Melbourne has decided that they will concentrate on making the Victorian scholarship secure.
The women of the Victorian Association have worked magnificently for the Fund but many of the Association’s members have now returned to the Territories and this puts an added burden upon the few who now remain in Melbourne.
The Scholarship Fund, which is open, in the first instance, to Territorian chil dren who lost either parent due to enemy action, was inaugurated several months ago by the New Guinea Women’s Associa tion of Melbourne. The first scholarship, to be awarded for 1947, is for a Victorian school; but it was hoped that if sufficient support came from other States it might be possible to extend the scope of the awards. Support has been forthcoming from individuals in other States and in New Guinea but no New Guinea organisa tion as a body has signified its intention of assuming some of the burden which extra scholarships would entail and the Melbourne women, at least for the time being, have had to abandon that idea.
As it is, they still have about £BOO to pro vide before the Victorian scholarship fund reaches the necessary £3,000. As there are only 30 members of the Association
now left in Victoria, this represents con siderable effort.
The following table sets the position
out clearly.
New Guinea Memorial Scholarship
Fund
Moneys raised by New Guinea Women’s Association (Mel bourne) to open Scholarship F « n d £B2O 0 0 Proceeds of Bird of Paradise Ball, organised by NGWA 804 7 4
Individual Donations
From:
New Guinea and Papua 140 10 6 Victoria 135 0 0 New South Wales 62 17 2 Queensland , 14 16 6 Tasmania 9 4 0 Canberra 77 6 South Australia 5 10 0 Western Australia 316 Fiji 220 Firms trading in pre-war NG .. [219 5 6 Total £2,224 2 0
During their campaign for funds, the
Association sent out a total of 1404 letters of appeal; they received a response to 148 of them.
DONATIONS to the Fund during November were as follows: Previously acknowledged to 31/10/46 £1,323 15 2 Eric Pockley, Avalon Beach, NSW 3 3 6 Mr. and Mrs. H. W. {Quinton, Mount Kuring-gai, NSW .. .. 2 2 0 Mrs. Mary Goss, Parramatta, NSW 2 0 6 Mrs. D. Waterhouse, Dungog, NSW 116 Mrs. Lucy Dwyer, Kirribilli, NSW 3 3 0 A. H. Bunting & Co., Samarai, Papua 10 10 0 Mr. and Mrs, Roy Smith, Kangaroo Grounds, Vic 2 20 Mrs. K. Oxley, Kangaroo Grounds, Vic 110 Mrs. B. Feely, Glen Iris, Vic. . . 10 0
Sgt. H. B. Sisson, 14 Workshops and Park Co., RAE, BCOF, Hire, Japan (Ex-2/22) 10 0 Mrs. M. D, Fraser, North Balwyn, Vic 110 Mr. and Mrs. R, J. Booker, N’Drova Plantation, Manus 550 Miss A. Mcßae, Camberwell, Vic. . . 110 Mrs. H. W. Gregory, South Yarra, Vic. (Proceeds Party) 10 0 Mrs. Doris R. Booth. “Cliffside,”
Wau, TNG 10 0 0 Mr. J. Peterson, Burns, Philp & Co., Lae 500 Mr, R. C. Donald, Burns, Philp & Co., Port Moresby 2 2 4) Commander and Mrs. Eric Feldt, .Brisbane, Qld 2 2 0 Mrs. H. Fegent, Frankston, Vic. . . 110 Mr. R. R. Walls, North Sydney (Ex-2/22) 10 6 Mr. R. F. Bunting, Samarai, Papua 10 10 0 Mr. J. D. Simpson, c/o BGD, Bulolo,
Tng 50 0
Mr. A. C. Koskey, c/o Adminis tration, Port Moresby 110 Mrs. G. E. Green, Blaxland, NSW 110 Mr. A. E. Fry, Wau, TNG ... 550 Miss Kay Parker, District Hospital, Yas?, NSW 110 Mrs. M. Valentine, Rabaul ... 220 Mrs. Joan Stevenson, Port Moresby, Papua 500 Mr. and Mrs. W. A. L. Clarke, West Ryde, NSW 1 i 0 Mr, and Mrs. G. Townsend, Koo yong, Vic ,500 Mr. T. W. J. Lega, c/o BGD, Bulolo,
Tng 10 0
Mr. W. T. Crocker, Canberra, ACT (Ex-2/22) 226 Proceeds Bird of Paradise Ball, organised by NGWA (Melb.) . . 804 7 4 Total to November 30, 1946 .. £2,224 2 0
General Meeting
THE Melbourne Association held its Annual General Meeting on Novem ber 9. Office bearers elected for the
coming year were: President, Mrs.
Stanley Best; Vice-president, Mrs. Allan Green; Treasurer. Mrs. Joan Hay; Secre tary, Miss Dorothy Stewart. Committee; Mrs. C. Cooper, Mrs. H. A. Gregory, Mrs.
Winifred Holland, Mrs. G. W. Spensley, Mrs. W. Rowe, Mrs. G. Walker.
The new president, Mrs. Stanley Best, had been Treasurer for the past five years, and at the conclusion of the meetng Mrs. R. Rigby, retiring president, pre sented her with silver salver as a mark
of appreciation.