European Children
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Scholarships for NG’s European Children
A PUBLIC-SPIRITED citizen, who wishes to remain anonymous has donated £5OO for scholar ships to assist European children from the Territory’s primary schools in continuing their secondary school studies in Australia. The fund is to be administered by the Port Moresby managers of the New South Wales and Commonwealth Banks.
This is the third scholarship endowment to be made in the Ter ritory in recent years. In Papua, Mr, and Mrs. J. I. Cromie endowed two scholarships valued at £5O each, to be awarded annually, and sub ject to renewal where satisfactory progress is shown by the scholar ship holder. This year a Wau schoolgirl, Rae Ferries, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. H, Ferries, will do her second school year as a Cromie scholarship holder. The other Cromie award for 1953 has gone to Robert Mulholland, of Port Moresby.
Mr. Gilbert Renton, of Rabaul, last year endowed an annual scholarship valued at £5O, and for the second year in succession it has been awarded to Ruth Batze, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. Batze, of Lae.
In addition, of course, the scholar ship students benefit also by the Administration’s annual secondary school grants.