JOHANNA LOHSE SCHOLARSHIPS.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18222, 5 November 1924, Page 2

JOHANNA LOHSE SCHOLARSHIPS.

FIVE TO BE ALLOCATED. A number of applications for the five Lohse scholarships available were received at the end of last month by the Church Property Trustees. They have not been allocated yet, and as enquiries have to be made in the different parts of the Dominion from which the applicants hail, it "will bo some time beiore an announcement is made. The scholarships are not awarded as the result of competitive examinations, but are granted, at the discretion of the trustees, to the applicants who show pronounced talent' in certain studies co7mected with the ' arts and sciences. These scholarships were founded in 1917, and are provided for under the will of the late Johanna Lohse who, for many yeais, conducted a girls' school in Christchurch. Each scholarship is tenable for three years, and is worth £IOO per annum. They are open to the daughters of Anglican clergymen in the Dominion: the applicants must be over 16 years of age and under 26 years of age, and they must have resided continuously in the Dominion for at least three years. The object of the scholarships is to provide tuition and instruction, either in the Dominion, or the United Kingdom, or the Continent of Europe, to "students showing proiiciency or "promise in either aits, or sciences, or. painting, or sculpture, or music, or any other branch of learning whatsoever." In the case of students showing exceptional promise and desirous of pursuing their studies outside New Zealand, the trustees, at their discretion, may increase the scholarship to £l5O per annum. The desire of the foundress was to enable girls to gain honours in the particular studies taken up by them in order that they might be in a position, to give others the benefit of their knowledge. Since the scholarships were founded some twenty-live scholars have benefited by them: several have attended schools in England, two went to Oxford, and others studied at the Royal College of Music.