Whereas Mary Irene Christoffel (hereinafter called the student) qualified in November, nineteen hundred and twenty-nine, under section seventeen of the New Zealand University Amendment Act 1914, for an award of a Taranaki Scholarship as from the first day of January, nineteen hundred and thirty, but was deemed by the University of New Zealand not to be entitled thereto: And whereas the University of New Zealand, relying on a judgment of the High Court of New Zealand given on the application of James Wincote Syme, made in the month of August, nineteen hundred and thirty-one, an award of the said scholarship to the student as from the first day of January, nineteen hundred and thirty, and made a payment (hereinafter referred to as the said payment) of the scholarship-moneys accordingly to the student in respect of the years nineteen hundred and thirty and nineteen hundred and thirty-one: And whereas the said payment was invalid by reason of the fact that the student did not, during the said years nineteen hundred and thirty and nineteen hundred and thirty-one, comply with the conditions of the said scholarship as set out in the said section seventeen and the regulations made thereunder: And whereas it is desirable to validate the said payment: Be it therefore enacted as follows:—

The said payment is hereby validated.