DOMESTIC SCIENCE

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 201, 20 May 1920, Page 4

DOMESTIC SCIENCE

TRAVELLING SCHOLARSHIPS "'FOR THE HIGHER EDUCATION OF WOMEN Mr. W. H. S. Moorliouse and Colonel Studholme, representing the trustees in the estate of the late Sarah Ann Rhodes, of Wellington, waited on tho Board of tTio Victoria College last evening in respect to a bequest which had been made by Mrs. Rhodes for the higher education of women at Victoria College.

The amount now available was about il?,000, Mr. Moorliouse stated, which was to 1)0 utilised, it was proposed, in the interest of domestic science. Nothing definite had been done in the matter, as it was thought best to await the return to New Zealand of Colonel Studholine, who had been round the world, and who had an idea to submit to the council as to the manner in which the bequest should be used.

Colonel Studholme. stated that after seeing what Dunedin had done in connection with the setting up of a chair of domestic science, it was thought that tho time was hardly ripe for setting up another chair in any other centre under the New Zealand University. lie said that Dunedin was of the opinion that it would immediately mean the loss of half of its students. Laboratory accommodation had been provided there, not only for the number now attending, 'but for a considerable increase. Though Mrs. Rhodes did not in her will specify that the money should be devoted to domestic science, the trustees were convinced that she had in her mind something in that direction. In view of all considerations, they proposed that there should be established two travelling- scholarships, to he called the Sarah Ann Bhodes Scholarships, consisting of the net amount of income from the accrued capital sum of tho •bequest. These should be open to students at Victoria College, available for twelve months, and renewable for two periods of twelve months each, at the discretion of the Victoria College Council. They should be continued for twelvo years, and thereafter terminated in favour of a chair of home science, under a Sarah Ann Rhodes Professor, should that course b? deemed to be advisable. The chairman (Mr. P. Levi) stated that the matter had been considered by the council, which had drawn up two schemes, but it. had been put to one side pending Colonel Studholme's rofcnrn. He suggested that a sub-committee should be sot up to confer with the trustees and to renort later to the council. This course was approved, and Messrs. P Levi, C. Watson, V. U. Bakewell, and Professor Sominerville were appointrtT a subcommittee to meet 'he trustees in the Education Board's rooms this evening.