MAY REVISIT NEW ZEALAND

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21974, 24 December 1936, Page 11

MAY REVISIT NEW ZEALAND

REPORTED HOLIDAY FOR LORD NUFFIELD RECENT GIFT TO BE USED TO FOUND NEW INDUSTRIES (UNITED TRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.) (Received December 23, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, December 22. According to the "Daily Telegraph," Lord Nuffield will leave England early in January to revisit Australia and New Zealand for a winter holiday. He will be absent for four months. This announcement cannot be confirmed at present, but there is no reason to doubt the statement, which is given as the reason why Lord Nuffield may not meet the trustees of his latest gift of £2,000,000 for the distressed areas. The trustees are preparing to begin work immediately and have fixed their first meeting for December 29 in London. It is understood they will use part of the sum in establishing new industries likely to provide permanent employment for the workless, which would have Lord Nuffield's approval. It is generally believed by experts in the areas concerned that the gift will enable the areas to turn the corner. The Minister for Labour (Mr Ernest Brown), speaking of Lord Nuffield's gift, said: "The Government appreciates both Lord Nuffield's gift itself and the method and manner of giving." The Commissioner for the Special Areas (Sir George Gillett) said that the gift would serve as a collaborator in his own field, working on different lines, but with the same good purposes. One of the trustees, Mr B. Seebohm Rowntree, said that the trustees had the power to do things with the money at their disposal which the Government could not rightly do with public money. These things' would be supplementary to the efforts of the Government, and would not in any way be substitutes for Government efforts. In the depressed areas, the announcement of the gift on the eve of Christmas has jiad a tonic effect.