VALUABLE PIECE OF PAPER

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21419, 11 March 1935, Page 12

VALUABLE PIECE OF PAPER

hord Nuffield's Cheque For £60,000 FIND lor crippled CUn/DREN [thh rnr.r.s special stvk*.] AUCKLAND, March H). A .small piece of paper of momentous import to the crippled children of New Zealand changed hands in Auckland on Saturday. It was Lord Nuffield's cheque for £60,000. The gift was made by a modest benefactor whose heart had been stirred by the knowledge that in New Zealand were crippled children who, for reasons of finance, were not receiving the preparation for life's opportunities which knowledge and s'kilJ avc able lo provide. As a piece of paper, n would have been, uninteresting but for the .significant inscription: "Pay hi C. J. B. Norwood the sum of sixty thousand pounds, ' followed b. ; the magical signalure "Nuffield"; t lie last in bold handwriting, betokening a man who when lit" gives, gives unwaveringly. Drawn on "the Sydney (Martin place) branch of (he Bank of Australasia, the cheque was dated "March 9." The sum of LOO,OOO comprises two amounts given by Lord Nuffield. ]le announced the first gift, of £50.000 at a dinner given in his honour at Wellington last Monday night by Mr C. J. B. Norwood, chairman of directors of Dominion Motors, Ltd. The method of applying this sum for the benefit of crippled children was left to Mr Norwood. The second gift of £IO,OOO was made by Lord Nuffield at a luncheon in Auckland on Friday, after an announcement that Mr and Mrs W. R. Wilson had offered to present their home, "St. Leonards,''' Takapuna. with its 33 acres of ground, for a crippled children's home, subject to the creation of an endowment. The £IO,OOO was given to form a nucleus of a Dominion endowment fund. Lord Nuffield sailed from Auckland for Suva on Saturday afternoon after five busy days in New Zealand. He will stay in Fiji for a i-hort while, hut no definite arrangements have been made as to his subsequent movements. When the motor-car conveying Lord Nuffield and his party reached the wharf no nne in the crowd, assembled at the chip's side, seemed aware - that the youthful-looking man who alighted with a plain wooden pipe in his teeth was the millionaire philanthropist. Unobtrusively, the .slim figure of Lord Nuffield, clad in a dark blue suit and a grey hr.t. hurried through the crowd nnd up 'he gangway. ENDOWMENT FUND i>lTS< KIi'TION I.IST IN in \i:ni\ T 1 tijr: rnriss srrvirr.j IXiNLDIN, March 0. After Mi' C. J. B. Norwood's re4uest that, funds should be opened m the various centres to supplement Lord Nuffield's gift towards the establishment of a home for crippled children, the Mayor of Dunedin (the IRev. E. T. Cox) intimated this mornnig that gifts towards this worthy object would be gladly received at Die town hall. Mr Cox stated that the university had been unable to accept "Littlebourne House" for a conservatorium of music, and. failing the city council being able to carry out the objective of tlie donors in making "Littlobournc House" a Vice-Regal resilience, he could see no worthier purpose to which the building could be put than a home for crippled ihildicn. "I-ittlehounie House" was the residence of (he ln'e Sir John }>"l->ri t AITKAI. r.Y TIIK On his return from Wellington on Saturday the Mayor (Mr D. G. Sullivan. M.P.) said that he had agreed to the request that Christciiurch should open a fund to supplement the money given for crippled children by Lord Nuffield. Mr Sullivan appealed to the citizens of Christciiurch to make a generous response to the appeal. The city treasurer, Mr J. W. Niven. will have control of the subscription lists and will acknowledge ail gifts. rTU.ESTION BY MAYOU OF JN VKKCAKGH.L INVEIICARGILL, March il Commenting on Mr C. J. B. Norwood's appeal from Auckland for ro-opcration of mayors of all towns 3o open a fund to supplement Lord gift, Mr John. Miller, pMayor of Invercargill, thought jfwhile the country fully appreciated £Lord Nuffield's generosity, the fund should be placed under the control *>f the Health Department, where, a Government subsidy jfcould be obtained to enhance the samount.