“Welfare Scholarships

Colonial Development And

THREE more scholarships have been awarded to Fiji under the United Kingdom Government’s Colonial Development and Welfare Scholarship Scheme. This enables young men and women of the Colonies, who are in the junior grades of the civil service, or who want to enter the service, to qualify for appointment to posts in the higher grades.

The latest scholarships have been awarded to A. Patterson, George W.

Nettles, and Subramayan Pillai.

Patterson is 20; a son of Mr. and Mrs.

R. T. Patterson of Levuka, and is an old boy of the Levuka Public School, the Suva Boys’ Grammar School, and New Plymouth Boys’ High School, New Zea land. When he completes his course he will be employed by the Medical Depart ment in Fiji as a dentist.

Nettles is 25, was born at Vunasalu, Nadroga, and is a technical apprentice in the Public Works Department. His scholarship will enable him to take a four years’ civil engineering course at Lough borough College, Leicestershire, England, leading to the award of associate mem

bership of the Institute of Civil Engineers.

Pillai, is a son of T. A. J. Pillai who recently returned to India after many years in the Fiji Government service. He is a Laboratory Assistant attached to the Entomological Division of the Depart ment of Agriculture at Naduruloulou.

He has been awarded a 5 years’ scholar ship to enable him to take a BSc degree course, followed by one year’s post graduate in entomology at Victoria Uni versity College, Wellington.

Nettles and Pillai are former students of the Marist Brothers Secondary School, Suva.