Lord Nuffield

Southland Times, Issue 23141, 6 March 1937, Page 6

Lord Nuffield

This week-end the city of Invercargill is being visited by a distinguished man whose name mqst have been mentioned in many households in the last few years. Lord Nuffield’s benefactions within the British Empire now total £8,000,000; in New Zealand alone he has given £111,700 to charitable causes. It is not necessary here to dwell upon the number and amounts of these gifts, except to say that they have been liberal beyond precedent, wise in the choice of beneficiaries, and benevolent in intention. Men of this kind are not good talkers on the subject of their own generosity; but no man can go about the world making gifts that run into millions of pounds without receiving a big share of public attention, and it is worth noting that in the speeches Lord Nuffield has made he has shown an awareness of values, not to be found in money, that make for permanence. To the future he may become a legend. But while he moves among the people of Invercargill who will meet him during his short stay here he can be accepted quietly, and without adulation, as a man with a clear conception of the trust in his hands, a, sense of its importance to to world, and a resolve to discharge it with wisdom.