GENEROUS GIFTS.
ENGLISH BENEFACTIONS. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Dec. 8. Two benefactions are announced todays iiv’the Midlands. Mr Frank Parkinson, chairman of Crompton, Parkinson, Ltd., has given £200,000 to Leeds University for new buildings. Mr Parkinson, who is an old student of Leeds University, recently instituted a special scholarship fund with a gift of £50,000 for the cause of education in Yorkshire. The new gift of £200,000 will he used to build a central block to provide the main architectural feature of the whole of the university building scheme. At Birmingham an offer has been received from the chocolate firm of Cadbury to provide £20,000 toward an estimated cost of £34,000 for a scheme to provide open spaces in that city.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 10, 10 December 1936, Page 9
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121GENEROUS GIFTS. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 10, 10 December 1936, Page 9
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