A LIBERAL GIFT.

Evening Star, Issue 3677, 4 December 1874, Page 3

A LIBERAL GIFT.

Mr J. L Gillies, after being eighteen years a member of it, has severed his connection with th® Tokomairiro School Committee, and at the last meeting of that body the Chairman (Mr Cunningham) read a communication from that gentleman, intimating that he had presented tha LSU given him by his oketnairiro fri nds, together wi’h L2O which he added to it, to the credit of *• The Tokomairiro Grammar School Scholarship Fond ” '1 he fund is to Ip an open one so that it may fom time to time be ad ! ed to, to he under t e management, of the Tokomairi o Grammar School t Vmmittee, and the interes’ of the money to be devoted to the aiding and assisting of boys ' T girts who may select, for a profess on that of teacher, and who may be desirons to attend the Normal School, about to be es abb shed for the training of tea< hers, or otherwise prepay® thdnselvrs for their profession. Mr Gillies added —“ > give it as heartily as it. w s g ven to me as a token of rav appreciation of tbe advantages my own family, in common with others, have derived from our educational system, and with a desire in a small way to help on any deserving hoys or girls who may devote tbemselve to that most noble, though too often despised vocation.” In the ‘ Rruce * erald’s’ report it is stated that th<* members of the committee expr- rsed their pleasurable surprise at the munificent gift, which, it was felt sure, would connect the name of the donor with the District and Grammar Schoo’ for ages to come.