MONTH’S VISIT

Southland Times, Issue 22490, 26 January 1935, Page 6

MONTH’S VISIT

CARNEGIE PRESIDENT A CIVIC WELCOME EXTENDED FOUNDER’S WORK (Per United Press Association.) Auckland, January 25. The president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, Dr Frederick Paul Keppel, arrived on the Monterey this morning and will spend four weeks in the Dominion, primarily to acquaint himself with the work of the Carnegie Corporation here and to make personal contact with those controlling the libraries, universities and museums with which the corporation is concerned. Dr Keppel, who is accompanied by Mrs Keppel, was accorded a civic reception in the Council Chambers. It was well attended. In extending a welcome to Dr and Mrs Keppel, the Mayor, Mr G. W. Hutchison, said that Dr Keppel had had a most distinguished career. Mr Kenneth Mackenzie, president of the Auckland University College and a member of the Council of the University of New Zealand, said it was difficult to realize the tremendous benefits which had accrued from the funds set aside by the late Mr Andrew Carnegie throughout the world. There were thousands of students who owed their thanks to the benefits they had been able to receive through the bequests of the corporation. Some of the greatest men in the world who had been unable to make provision for themselves had been provided for from the funds set up by Mr Andrew Carnegie. Dr Keppel spoke briefly. He said that Mr Carnegie had had an amazing instinct and ability to carry forward the things he had started during his career. For a man whose education had ended at the age of 13 years he had an amazing interest in universities and libraries. “My co-trustees and myself are greatly interested in furthering the objects for which the fund was made,” said Dr Keppel.