Bursaries For Wool Students To Study Two Years Overseas

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 49, 4 February 1949, Page 7

Bursaries For Wool Students To Study Two Years Overseas

Opportunities for New Zealand scientific workers in wool research to gain experience overseas are offered again this year by the New Zealand Wool Board. The Board is inviting applications, by February 28, for two bursaries, each to the value of €4OO sterling per annum for two years, to enable suitably qualified persons to go overseas and gain experience in sheep and wool research problems. Applicants should hold a University degree in science or agriculture, preferablly a Master’s degree with first-class honours. Experience in sheepfarming is advantageous but not essential. In keeping with its policy of fostering scientific research into wool and sheep problems in New Zealand, the Wool Board requires the two bursars to return to New Zealand on the completion of their overseas studies and to enter into the service of some approved New Zealand organisation for at least three years, at a salary suitable to their qualifications and experience. The two bursars for 1948 are still overseas, one in Britain and the other in the United States. Intending applicants for the 1949 bursaries should secure fuller details from the secretary of the New Zealand Wool Board, Box 248, Wellington.