WAR BURSARIES

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 92, 11 January 1918, Page 4

WAR BURSARIES

REGULATIONS GAZETTED.

The following regulations covering the award of war bursaries are gazetted:—

A bursary may be awarded under these regulations to ayoung person of either sex who is certified by the War Pensions Board to be the dependant of a member of the New Zealand Expeditionary Forces who has been killed through active military service, or who as the result of such services suffered disablement tho nature and extent of which, in the opinion of the board, warrant the award of a bursary to the dependant, and— \ (a) Who is qualified to receive free education at technical classes other than tho classes of a technical high school ; or (b) ,Who is qualified to hold a free place as a secondary school, a district high school, or a technical high school; or (c) Who, being under the age of nineteen on tho nearest first December, is qualified to receive (i) a university bursary or (ii) an educational 'bursary.

A young person who is qualified \lll- - der one of the paragraphs (a), (b), or (c) above, and has accordingly been to free education or to a free place, or has been awarded a university or an educational bursary, shall, so long as he complies with the regulations pertaining to such free place or bursary, receive a monetary grant in aid of necessary incidental expenditure incurred' during tho period of his attendance, as follows: If qualified wider paragraph (a), an allowance of £1 10s. for each year in which the requirements of a free place are fulfilled," provided that the allowance may bo increased to £3 if a grouped course approved under the regulations for technical instruction and occupying not lees than four hundred hours a year is Ntaken; if qualified under paragraph (b), an allowance at the rate of £5 per annum; if qualified under paragraph (c), an allowance at the rate of £10 per

annum. . Tf, in the opinion of thfi Director ot Education a young person to whom these regulations apply is obliged to live away from home in order to prosecute his studies, he shall further be entitled to receive, 'n quarterly or halfyearly instalment, by way of boarding allowance, a payment not exceeding £15 for any year if ho regularly attends day classes constituting a grouped course approved under the regulations for technical instruction and occupying not less" than four hundred hours a year, or a payment at the rate of £30 per annum if he regularly attends a secondary school, a district nigh school, or a technical high school, or if ho is the holder of a university pr an educational bursary; provided that in anv case the arrangements made in respect of hie board and lodging shah first be approved by the authorities of the school attended. Whore the young person lives at home and is, in the opinion of tho Director of Education, obliged to travel by means other than rail more than four miles daily each way in order to prosecute his studies, ho ehall if he regularly attends day classes as aforesaid be'entitled to a. refund of tho amount actually and necessarily expended by him in such trave ling up to £5 per annum, or up to £10 per annum if ho rcgularlv attends a secondary school, a district high school or n technical Msli school, or is the holder of a university or an educational burSal \ "bursary under these /filiations shall not be tenable after the holder attains the age of twenty-three years.