CARNEGIE TRUST.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 259, 2 November 1931, Page 2

CARNEGIE TRUST.

representative arrives. MAY MAKE NEW GRANTS. Professor L. E>. Coffman, president of the University of Minnesota, U.S.A., arrived yesterday by the Aorangi. l[ e is the accredited representative of the Carnegie Endowment _ior International Peacef for which he is making a tour of inspection of certain trusts in New Zealand. Ho explained that when Andrew Carnegie died he left 10;000.000 dollars in trust, the income froin which he stipulated should be spent in education projects and for the furtherance of international understandings amongst British possessions. Most of the income had been spent in Canada, some of it in South Africa and a little in Australia and New Zealand recently. Two years ago Dean James B. Russell, of Teachers' College, Columbia University, New York, came to New Zealand and and gave some money away for specific purposes. Professor Coffman's mission is to inspect those trusts and ste what can be done to further the objects. It was possible, Professor Coffman said, that he would make several new grants. He had the power to do so, but he wished it to be distinctly understood that there were two things he could not do. He could not provide endowments or buildings. Whatever grants he made in New Zealand or Australia, or anywhere, would be straight-out; grants. After spending two weeks in New Zealand Professor Coffman and Mrs. Coffman will leave by the Makura for Sydney, proceeding thence to Manila, where he is due to lecture in January at. the University of the Philippines. Thence he will go to China and Japan, and he hopes to return to the United States next March.