A GREAT SCHOLARSHIP OFFER

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1295, 25 November 1911, Page 14

A GREAT SCHOLARSHIP OFFER

It is recognised that the higher tho bu-.ine.-s standard nf a community tilt" greater thy prosperity of the country, for vears Me.->r.-.. Hemingway and Kobertson havo been consistently and persistently urging upnn young men the necessity for having high qualilicalions in the. important work of accountancy and bookkeeping. They have brought to a high pitch of perfection their system of instruction by mail, and have demonstrated its possibilities by passing no less than 101 through the accountancy degree. In addition, they have carried on other branches of instruction, which havo made their school among the most important south of the Line. Now they are making no less than the free offer (iibsolutetly without conditions, save that tho recipient must be a correspondence studont of the firm) of three yerv valuable scholarships, the first being .tiint of t. seven months' sojourn in Great Britain and the Continent, with all expenses paid, and a. course of instruction at the London School of Economics. The second highest in order of marks obtains three years' free scholarship at. a New Zealand University, in order that .he may study for the Bachelor of Commerce deirrce; nnd the third receives a complete business man a,nd accountant's library, carefully selected, and useful.as a work of reference every day of a business-man's'life. The details of theai great free offers are in the hands of an advisory committee of gentlemen prominent in improving the standard of business education—Professor Maxwell Walker, M.A.: llenrv Shaw. Esq., F.K.A. (N.Z:); Goo: W. Hutchison. Esq., P.P.A. (N.Z.); and Win. 11. Wilson, Esq., U.A., LL.M., under the chairmanship of the Hev. If. Barnard Wingfieß vicar of St. Albans, Auckland. Tho firm's illustrated booklet, which is issued free of cost, gives full details "descriptive of these free scholarships. This booklet will bo found to be of value to every office man, whatever his status, who has not passed tho accountancy degree.