15 Children Helped

By Ex-NG Women

Just after the war, the members of the New Guinea Women’s Association, of Melbourne, worked very hard to raise a considerable sum of money for a memorial to the men of the Terri tory who had lost their lives during the war.

The memorial took the form of a scholarship, and in the first instance, the children who benefited were to be the children of the men who had died as a direct result of the war.

Since then, 15 children, in all, have been granted scholarships, but at the end of this year, the final scholarshin holder in class 1, as above, will have completed her term.

From now on, the scholarships will be offered to those in class 2: “Children of British or Australian parents resi dent in the Territory of Papua-New Guinea; first preference to be given to children of discharged servicemen or service-women.”

It is expected that two scholarships; will be offered in 1959.

The original amount placed in Trust,, in 1946, to finance these scholarships; was £3,720. Since then, some of the; capital has been used to allow so< many children to benefit, but this has; almost been replaced by an amount ofi £7BO received from the Queensland!

New Guinea Scholarship Fund whichi wound up its affairs and made the; gift at the end of 1957. The amount; in the Melbourne Trust is now £3,670..