BEQUEST FOR COLLEGE

Chronicle (Levin), 7 January 1947, Page 2

BEQUEST FOR COLLEGE

— Press Assoc.iatinn

By Tclegraph ■

( i 1 Jv 1 n 1 v 1 1 u Tvv 11, .lan. D. A hequest which will miike available schola rships for Cantcrburv Agricult m ai (kilicge at Lincoln is provided in Ihe will of Williani Dunst erville who dicd in Christchurch in 1945. Subject I o a lil'c inlorest in favour of his wife Alr. Dunstcrville left the whole of his cslale valued at niore than £12,000 to the college for the fouuding of scholar sliips to perpctuatc his naine and his intcresl in agriculture and to provide assistance to voung men who would otherwise fuul it difficult to finance their training. A coudition is that scholarships sliould be available to studenls who are born in New Zealand and whose parents could not afford to ineet ihe costs of training without; assistance. Mr. Dunstcrville enrolled at Canter burv Agricultural College in 1898 and throughout his life retained a keen inlerost in the college 's progress. He was for a time assistant agricultural edbor of The Press, Christchurch, and was later editor of the New Zealand Farmer, a pn.sitjoii he resigned because of ill-hcall h. As Houtli Island represen lative of the " Fanners ' Weokly" up to Ihe time of his death he vvrolo niany articles about llie work of- the college.