Ng Scholarship

Fund Secretory Now Working From New Britain

THE energetic secretary of the New Guinea Memorial Scholarship Fund, Miss Dorothy Stewart, has returned to New Guinea but she has not lessened

her efforts on behalf of the Fund, which now stands at a total of £3.382.

The Fund was started by the New Guinea Women’s Association, of Mel bourne, over a year ago, and yearly scholarships, tenable for three years, for the children of deceased service per sonnel of the Territories, are now being provided in Victoria.

In May this year, it was decided that the Scholarship Fund should become separate from the Association, and that Miss Stewart, who had been organising secretary and one of the most enthusiastic workers for the Fund, should remain its permanent secretary, although she was then preparing to leave Melbourne for Rabaul.

The original objective of the Fund was £3,000, which will permanently endow a fresh 3-year scholarship of £3O per annum each year. Miss Stewart sees be yond this, however, to a time when the scholarship will be contested by children actually resident in New Guinea, and it is her desire to increase the Fund so that its scope may be extended to include any secondary school in the Common wealth, instead of being limited to Vic torian schools as at present. The added expense that would be involved in send ing a child to Australia from the Terri tories would be considerable.

Since her return to Rabaul, Miss Stewart has been able to do much to publicise the scheme and several hundreds of pounds have already been added — due largely to the generosity of the New Britain Club, which held a function in aid of the Fund on July 5 (see August

“Pim”).

Miss Stewart will be pleased to receive donations from those wishing to honour, in this way, the memory of the Terri torian servicemen who died in the last

Miss Stewart.

war. Cheques should be made out to the New Guinea Memorial Scholarship Fund and sent to Miss D. Stewart, Cos

mopolitan Hotel, Rabaul. New Guinea.

Latest Donations

DONATIONS to’ the Fund received since the list was last published on May 30, are as follows: Donations acknowledged-previously £3,038 16 0 Mrs. Joan Hay, Leura, NSW ... 150 Chas. H. Sturgeon (no address given) 200 Lorna Gilbert, St. Kilda, Vic. (proceeds sale of knitting) .. 713 6 Rev. A. P H. Freund, c/o R. W.

Tebb, Lae, TNG 200 Joyce Jones, European Hospital, Madang, TNG 3 10 0 D. I. McAlpin, Govt. Secretary’s Dept., Port Moresby 110 J. P. Houghton, c/o W.R.C. & Co., Rabaul 100 Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Frame, Port Moresby. Papua 550 Mr. and Mrs. K. C. Douglas. St.

Remo Plantation, New Britain 2 2 0 lan S. Levy, c/o P.W.D. Work shops. Rabaul 220 New Britain Club, Rabaul (as shown August “PIM”) 316 2 6 Total to August 31. 1947 .. £3.382 17 0