WELLINGTON NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 987, 5 September 1903, Page 1

WELLINGTON NEWS.

(Per Press Association ); Wellington, last night. Dr Parkin, appointed by the trustees of the Rhodes' scholarship scheme to traverse the English-speaking world and collect materials from which the trustees could frame a scheme, arrived in Wellington by the Turakina last evening. Ho holds a consultation to-day with the representatives of the university colleges, secondary and primary schools, and the Education Department, to receive suggestions 'As to the conditions under which the three scholarships allotted to the colony under Mr Ceoil Rhodes’ will shall be awarded. A conference of educational representatives, with Dr Parkin, representing the trustees of the Rhodes scholarships, opened at the Museum buildings to-day. Sir Robert Stout, Chancellor of the New Zealand University, was elected chairman, and expressed regret that the professorial boards were not represented at the conference. Dr Parkin explained that the chief points upon which the Rhodes trustees wanted advice were the method of selecting scholars and the body to be entrusted with the selection, age limits of candidates, the length of residence in the colony be.fore a candidate could apply for a scholarship, the possibility of adhering closely to the suggestion of Mr Rhodes in the selection of scholars, and the course of study at Oxford wbioh should be recommended to Rhodes scholars. The conference adjourned till 8.30 p.m., to enable the Auckland representatives to be present.