ANOTHER QUESTION
BEACON ACTS AS ARBITRATOR "IS LORD NUFFIELD A BACHELOR?"
Two weeks ago the BEACON was asked to settle the question, '"When is Easter?" We stated at that time that when matters of every description puzzle people of every description the answer is invariably sought at the office of the local newspaper. We should not have said that. It has put ideas into some heads.
The latest poser, apparently as the result of some argument—and maybe there is a wager on it—( reads: "Is Viscount Nuffield a bachelor or not?" The last two words appear to be superfluous because if Lord Nut Yield is not a bachelor, he is certainly not. Incidentally that is correct —he is riot.
There seems to be a popular belief that the well known philanthropist is unmarried. That is probably because he travels alone and also because ot the fact that nothing is heard ot Lady Nuffield.
Actually, Lady Nuffield is of a retiring disposition and vhuns publicity. She spends most of h*r time at her home, near the village jof Nuffield, Oxfordshire, and never attends public functions. Viscount and Lady Nuffield were :.narr;ed when the motor magnate was plain Mr William Herbert Morris.
Viscount Nuffield started his commercial carcer by opening a shop for the repair of cycles. Then came motor cars and lie saw Ihc possibilities in the new mode of transport. The present Morris works, the la Igest of its kind in the British Empire, is the result of ids foresight and initiative. Lord Nuffield is better known as a philanthropist, having given away sums totalling ,£13.01)0,000. His donations have been made mainly to medical science, hospitals and universities, but no worthy cause has lacked his generous assistance. Some time ago he announced his intention to donate an "Iron Lung*' to every hospital in the British Empire, for the treatment of infantile paralysis. (One is installed in Whakatane). His latest offer is to present one to every one of the hospitals in the world.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 120, 7 February 1940, Page 5
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333ANOTHER QUESTION Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 120, 7 February 1940, Page 5
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