NUFFIELD GIFTS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19881, 7 March 1939, Page 14

NUFFIELD GIFTS

ANOTHER £7500 PAID . CRIPPLED CHILDREN TRIBUTES TO GENEROSITY MILLIONS GIVEN AWAY (Par Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. A cheque for £7500 was handed last night to Sir Charles Norwood, the chairman of directors of Dominion Motors, ’Limited, 'by Viscount Nuffield for the trustees of the Nuffield trust to assist crippled children of New Zealand. This was announced by Sir Charles at a dinner he tendered to Lord Nuffield at the Hotel St. George and which was attended by Cabinet 'Ministers and leaders of commerce and industry and representatives ol local bodies and the professions. •Sir Charles said that since the ■great calamity of fires in Australia, in the alleviation c;f which Lord Nuffield had assisted, he had decided that something must be done for Now Zealand. Lord Nuffield was very pleased by/what had been done by the 16 branches of the Crippled Children's Society in the Dominion and he had decided that this gift should be handed to the trustees of the Nuffield trust. “I know you will agree with me when I say, ‘God bless Lord Nuffield,’ said Sir Charles. One of Greatest Englishmen The Minister of Public Works, the Hon. R. Semple, said he regarded Lord Nuffield as one of the greatest living Englishmen. “He has a heart of gold and realises that we are all trustees of a great heritage in the world," said Mr. Semple. On rising to reply to the toast to him. Lord Nuffield was greeted with sustained applause and musical honours. “I can only assure you of the very great pleasure it gives me to come to this great little country of yours again and do what I can in a small way to help,’’ Lord Nuffield said. “Sir Charles Norwood and Mr. Semple have said many kind things about me. I feel I have only done that which I should have done.” Lord Nuffield added that during a ■business career one should at any rate try to do his very best for his workmen, but many people had done that. However it was not so long ago that he had a surprise when workmen of the Wolsley Company, which he owned, subscribed in shillings to buy the boss a motor car. “Gentlemen, that has meant more to me than m'any ithings in this world, that my workmen like me, and I can say in return that I am very fond of them,” said Lord Nuffield. The Minister of Finance, the Hon. W. (Nash, replying later in the evening to the toast to Parliament, also paid a tribute to the work and generosity Of Lofd Nuffield. “On the evidence I have,” said Mr. Nash, “he has already given away more than £10,000,000.”

DISTINGUISHED ASSEMBLY LEADERS OF INDUSTRY MEMBERS OF CABINET (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day'. Tributes to a great Englishman, who was described by some speakers as among the greatest Englishmen of the day, were paid at a dinner tended in honour of Viscount Nuffield by the chairman of directors of Dominion Motors, Limited, Sir -Charles Norwood, at the Hotel St. George last night and attended by leaders of industry. Cabinet Ministers, local body representatives, and professional men. Those present included the Minister of Finance, the Hon. W. Nash; the Minister of Public Works, the Hon. R. Semple; the‘Minister of Mines, the Hon P. C. Webb; the Minister of Agriculture, the Hon. W. Lee Martin; the Chief Justice, Sir Michael Myers; the Chief of the General Staff, Majortieneral J. E. Duigan; the Governor of the Reserve Bank, Mr. L. Lefeaux; the Bishop of Wellington, the Rt. Rev. H St. Bar-be Holland; the chairman of the Wellington Harbour Board, Mr. C. M. Turrell; Mr. W. J. Broadfoot, M.P., representing the Leader of the Oppos - tion; the president of the New. Zealand Returned 'Soldiers’ Association, the Hon. W. Perry,. M.L.C.; the president of the Associated Chambers of Commerce of New Zealand, Mr. M. S. Myers; the general manager of railways, Mr. G. H. Mackley; the president of the Newspaper Proprietors’ Association, Mr. C. W. Earle; the managing director of the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand, Limited, Mr. N. S. Falla; the Comptroller of Customs Mr. E. D. Good; the Commissioner of Taxes, Mr. J. M. Park; the engineer-in-chief of the Public Works Department. Mr. J. Wood; Sir Thomas Wilford and Sir James Grose. Apologies for absence were received from the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage; the Minister of Education, the Hon. P. Fraser; the Minister of Justice, the Hon. H. G. R Mason: and the Minister of Lands, the Hon. F. Langstone.