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NG Women's Club Against Scholarship Fund

AT an extraordinary general meeting of the New Guinea Women’s Club of Sydney on October 28 it was decided not to participate in the extension of the New Guinea Memorial Scholarship Fund to New South Wales.

The New Guinea Scholarship Fund (ori ginated by the NG Women’s Association, Melbourne), at present operates only in the State of Victoria. The Hon. Secretary of the Fund, Miss Dorothy Stewart, had suggested to various New Guinea organ isations that the Fund should not now be

so limited, but extended to other States. It was out of this suggestion that the extra ordinary general meeting was called.

Lack of interest among members was indicated by the fact that only 17 attended.

Twenty-two country members had been circularised and their opinions asked for, but only one replied.

After correspondence relevant to the subject had been read and received, the meeting was thrown open to discussion.

General opinion appeared to be that as several years had elapsed since the scholarship’s Victorian inception it was late to start new funds and that the ages of children of civilians and servicemen killed in New Guinea during the war would make them ineligible. These children, now resident in Australian States, had an equal chance of sitting for the ordinary scholarships available in those States and therefore would not be handicapped by lack of a further New Guinea Memorial Scholarship (or Scholarships > being formed. The difficulty of raising money now was stressed by several members.

The motion against a Scholarship Fund for NSW was carried unanimously.