LORD NUFFIELD BACK IN BRITAIN

Southland Times, Issue 23179, 21 April 1937, Page 5

LORD NUFFIELD BACK IN BRITAIN

LAND SETTLEMENT IN NEW ZEALAND PREDICTED

LONDON, April 19. Lord Nuffield on his arrival at Tilbury said he had been most impressed by the progress of Australia and New Zealand and their potentialities for development. Extensive settlement by British people would undoubtedly come and these lands would then develop into being among the richest in the British Commonwealth of Nations. “I had a fine holiday, but I am furious at the reports that I don’t sleep at nights,” Lord Nuffield told The Star. “One hour’s sleep in ten years! It is ridiculous. I sleep, like any other man, eight hours every night.”

Commenting on Professor John Hilton’s disclosure that Lord Nuffield had not slept ordinarily since his youth, Mr Harry Seaward, joint general manager of Morris Motors, said that Lord Nuffield never slept for more than three or four hours, and that his ability to do without sleep was probably due to his sacrifice of rest when working day and night early in his career; he had lost the habit of sleep. Professor Hilton, amplifying his remarks, told the News Chronicle that Lord Nuffield’s habit of lying in bed conscious of everything about him and rarely losing consciousness was part of the intense mental awareness and activity which contributed to his amazing personality.