SCHOLARSHIPS

Te Ao Hou, July 1956, Page 11

SCHOLARSHIPS The first post-graduate scholarship to be awarded by the Ngarimu V.C. Scholarship Fund Board has been granted to Lieutenant-Colonel C. M. Bennett, D.S.O., Controller of Maori Welfare. Colonel Bennett is a Master of Arts and also holds a Diploma of Social Science and a Diploma of Education. He intends to take up his scholarship next year at a university in Britain, where he will study for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. The board expressed great satisfaction at the calibre of the students offering for the various awards. Ngarimu V.C. Scholarships were awarded to Waari Geoffry Ward-Holmes, previously of Nelson Intermediate School, who is holding his scholarship at Nelson College, and to Eliza Edmonds, previously of Karetu Maori School, who is holding her scholarship at Queen Victoria School, Auckland. A Ngarimu V.C. Secondary School Scholarship was awarded to Frederick P. T. Bennett, of Te Hauke School, Hastings, who is holding his scholarship at the New Plymouth Boys' High School. Ngarimu V.C. University Scholarships have been won by Wairehu W. Hikaka, of St Patrick's College, Silverstream, who proposes to begin a medical course at the University of Otago this year; and by Anthony P. Hura, of St Patrick's College, Silverstream, who also proposes to begin a medical course at Otago this year. He belongs to the Ngati Tuwharetoa tribe, of Taupo. Ngarimu V.C. Essay Competitions (essays in Maori)—Primary section: Nan Herewini, of Te Kaha Maori District School. Post-primary sections: Tukaki H. K. Waititi, of St Stephen's School, Auckland; and Mac Walker, of St Stephen's School, Auckland. Essays in English—Primary section: Steve Lambert, of Te Aute College, Hawke's Bay. Post-primary section: Mason Durie, of Te Aute College, Hawke's Bay.