CULTURAL PURPOSES
GOVERNMENT GRANTS CARNEGIE TRUST’S WORK < British Official Wireless. ) RUGBY, March 9. Grams totalling £405,090 for social and cultural purposes in the United Kingdom were announced at the annual meeting of Carnegie United Kingdom Trust, lhe new grants which are for a period of five years from the beginning of 1936 include £150,000 for land settlement in distressed districts, which will be distributed in co-opera-tion with the Land Settlement Association recently established on the initiative of the Ministry of AgricultureThe Government promised financial assistance, and the Commissioner for special areas has undertaken the responsibility of developing the work. The remaining grants are for the extension of public libraries, museums, village halls, and other social cultural purposes. It is revealed that the Trust has already distributed £2,528,000 in Britain during its life-time.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 59, 12 March 1935, Page 5
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