DOMINION NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 September 1918, Page 2

DOMINION NEWS.

PATRIOTIC SCHOLARSHIPS. By Telegraph.—Presa Association. Wellington, September 3. A representative and influential deputation "waited on Mr. Hemes, Minister of Railways, and Mr. MaeDonald, Acting-Postmaster-General, in connection with a project for raising £IOO,OOO to found scholarships for children of New Zealand poldiers and sailors killed in the war. The object of the deputation was to inform Ministers that a fund had recently been inaugurated at Trentham Camp ivith the aim of providing scholarships for the children of New Zealand soldiers w(d sailors who made the supreme sacrifice. Major-Gencral Robin, Colonel Potter, and Dr. Anderson (Director of Education) had appointed trustees of the fund, and substantial donations had been obtained towards a'big art union. Application was tiien made to the Minister of Internal Affairs to hold a raffle, but as the scope of the movement had grown, so much, and they thought of making it a Dominion fund, the Minister asked the promoters to set up a strong supervising committee to control the art union- Tlio Minister has given the nccessaray" license to proceed with the art union. To each district will be sent bayonetfighters and the Trentham Band, to let the people see what is being done at Trentham in the way of training soldiers. Free railway passes and postal facilities were asked for. Messrs MacDonald and Herries, replying, said the matter would go before the Cabinet and receive evpry possible consideration,