CRIPPLED CHILDREN’S FUND

Greymouth Evening Star, 15 June 1935, Page 5

CRIPPLED CHILDREN’S FUND

MR NORWOOD’S STATEMENT.

(PEB PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

WELLINGTON, June 14.

The formation of a Wellington branch of the New Zealand Crippled Children Society was endorsed at a public meeting in “the Town Hall tonight. Mayor T. C. A. Hislop presided.

“There seems to be a little mystery in the minds of some people as to what Lord Nuffield’s intentions were, and \just how the £60,000 which I had the honour to receive from him, is going to be spent,” said C. J. B. Norwood, a member of the Nuffield Trust. “The first gift made by Lord Nuffield was for £50,000, and beyond a genera! understanding that it was to be used for crippled children’s work throughout the Dominion, there was no stipulation by him as to the way he wished it spent. Later, before he| left, Lord Nuffield provided a second I gift of £lO,OOO, which was to be the nucleus of an endowment fund, which he hoped would be supplemented by New 7 Zealand people. “I am sorry to say that, on the I whole, the response from the wealthlier people of the Dominion was very disappointing,” continued Mr Norwood. “Certain sums, however, have |been subscribed, 'but the totals have I not come to hand, and therefore, 1 cannot tel! yon the exact result.” Mr Norwood srid the. Trust had decided that the whole of the money available to the central fund should be treated as a national endowment fund, the returns from the investment, of which would bo available to help all crippled children’s societies now being formed through the agency of Rotary Clubs throughout New Zealand.