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ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS

ATTORNEY GENERAL

LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY QUESTION

QUESTION NO 90

Walter Oswald Watt Memorial Fund

Mr Cornwell - asked the Attorney General -

Mr Connolly - the answer to the Members question is as follows:

The Walter Oswald Watt Memorial Fund is a private trust fund established by Colonel Walter Oswald Watt, an early Australian aviator with links to Canberra and Duntroon. In 1910, Colonel Watt conducted one of the first aerial surveys of the Australian Capital Territory. He identified the area around Duntroon as an ideal location for the construction of an aerodrome.

In his will, Colonel Watt set aside 500 pounds for the establishment of a trust fund to be administered by the Commandant of the Royal Military College at Duntroon. The purpose of the trust fund was to provide an annual prize for the best essay by a cadet about military aviation or aeronautics. Under the terms of the trust, only one prize of one set of field glasses was to be made each year.

In 1938, Administrator Huntingfield made the Walter Oswald Watt Memorial Fund Ordinance 1938 which varied the initial trust to allow two prizes to be given annually. The Ordinance was slightly modified in 1939.

From 1989 to 1991 prizes were awarded to:

(a) 1989 Lt MD Prictor

Lt NL Beckett

(b) 1990 Lt NH Stanton

Lt Wallace

Lt SNP McDonald

In June 1992 Lt EGA McDonnell was awarded a prize (a second prize has not yet been made).

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