No Ng Scholarship Award

For 1949

THE New Guinea Memorial Scholarship was not awarded for 1949 as the only candidate was too young and obr viously not up to the standard required.

Two scholarships will, however, be available for 1950, should two candidates be found to be up to the required stan dard. The examination will be held at the end of this year.

Parents of eligible children, at school in Victoria, should make it their business to obtain from the headmaster or head mistress of the school which their child attends, the subjects requred for the Junior Examination in State Schools, in order that the child may study the cor rect subjects—otherwise he or she can not hope to obtain the required per centage for a pass.

The scholarship fund was inaugurated by the members of the New Guinea Women’s Association of Melbourne. As education is a State matter in Australia, and as each State has a different system, it was found impossible to make these scholarships available to all eligible child ren at school in the Commonwealth. It had, instead, to be restricted to children attending school in Victoria —at least in its first years, as the scholarship is avail able, in the first instance, to children of New Guinea residents who lest their lives during the war. When there are no children in this category who are eligible, children of living ex-servicemen of New Guinea may sit for the examination.

The scheme, at present, is of necessity somewhat complicated but in a few years it is expected that there will be no fur ther children eligible in Victoria and then the scholarship will be available to child ren attending school in New Guinea.

If you are in doubt as to whether your child is eligible or not, you shouM con tact Miss Dorothy Stewart, henorary secretary of the Fund, Rabaul. New Guinea. Each scholarship is worth £3O per year and is tenable for three years.