GENEROUS CAPITALISTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 3 October 1928, Page 5

GENEROUS CAPITALISTS

HUGE GIFTS TO PUBLIC WOOLAVINGTON MEMORIAL (Australian Press Association.) (By Cable—Press Assn.—Copyright.) LONDON, October 2. Lord Woolavington has given Middlesex Hospital £125,000 in memory of his wife. The gift will enable provision to be made for the accommodation of middle-class patients, who pay a flat rate to cover maintenance and operation costs, but no profits will accrue to the hospital. Fees paid to the doctors will be assessed in accordance with the financial condition of each patient. Lord Woo#ivington has also given £50,000 for the restoration of Saint George’s Chapel, Windsor.

CAMBRIDGE LIBRARY.

LONDON, October 1.

Conditionally upon Cambridge University raising the remaining quarter of a million sterling to complete a new library scheme, costing half a million sterling, the Rockefeller Foundation International Board has granted £700,000 to assist in the development of physical and biological studies at Cambridge University, including a quarter of a million sterling for the new library.

S. AFRICAN AND EMPIRE.

CAPE TOWN, October 2.

Sir Abe Bailey has donated £5OOO yearly in perpetuity to the Royal Institute of International Affairs. In a letter to the Prince of Wales, Sir A. Bailey writes: "I am impelled to advance the ideas for which Cecil Rhodes stood. The nations of the Empire, by learning to live together in peace, 'might teach a lesson to the rest of the world.” He concludes that he feels the work of the Institute is vital to the present needs of the Empire.