CARNEGIE PRESIDENT IN DOMINION

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 104, 26 January 1935, Page 6

CARNEGIE PRESIDENT IN DOMINION

4 Dr. F. P. Keppel’s Mission TRIBUTES TO A GREAT SCOTSMAN By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, January 25. The president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, Dr. I‘rederick Paul Keppel, arrived on the liner Monterey this morning, and will spend four weeks in the Dominion, primarily to acquaint himself with the work of the Carnegie Corporation here, aud to make personal contact witli those controlling the libraries in the University Colleges and museums with which the corporation is concerned. Dr. Keppel, who is accompanied by Airs Keppel, was Recorded a civic ieception in the City Council chamber. It was well attended. In extending a welcome to Dr. and Mrs. Keppel, the Mayor Mr. G, W. Hutchison, said that Dr. Keppel had had a most distinguished career. .... Mr. Kenneth Mackenzie, president of the Auckland University College, and a member of the Senate of the University of New Zealand, said it was difficult to realise the tremendous benefits which had accrued from the funds set aside by Andrew Carnegie. Throughout the world there were thousands of students who owed their thanks to the benefits they had been able to receive through the bequests of the Corporation. Some of the greatest men in the world who had been unable to make provision for themselves had been provided for from the funds set up by Andrew Carnegie. Dr. Keppel spoke briefly He said that. Mr. Carnegie had had an amazing instinct and ability to carry forward things he started. For a man w-hose education ended at 13 years, he had had an amazing interest in universities and libraries. "My co-trustees and myself are greatly interested in furthering the objects for which the fund was made,” said Dr. Keppel. VISITOR’S AMBITION Study of Maori Education Dominion Special Service. Auckland, January 25. The last benefaction made by Mr. Andrew Carnegie just before he died, said Dr. Keppel, in an interview, was the setting aside of £10,000,060 for work of an educational nature in what he called “Canada and the British Colonies.” This was to be administered by an American Board of Trustees, following the same principles as the organisation controlling the fund iu the United States. The original aim was the advancement and diffusion of knowledge and under-tanding, aud this has been the guiding theme throughout. There had been different degrees of development in the different activities supported by the corporation. The professional side of library service had gone further in the United States, Britain and, perhaps,. Seandanavia than elsewhere. Faculties of library administration had been inaugurated in the Univ/i-sities although that was an evolution that had not yet completed itself. During his visit to New Zealand Dr. Keppel sa/d be hoped to fulfil an ambition to study various aspects of Maori education, particularly as they affected the preservation of native crafts, and he instanced the wonderful work that had been done in this direction with the North American Indians, lie also hoped to study adult education, having had close contact with the Workers’ Educational Association through the University Colleges, After spending four days in Auckland, Dr. Keppel will leave for the Sovlth, returning later. His southern tour will include both islands and during his stay in the South Island he will be the guest of Mr. Frank Milner, Rector of Waitaki.Boys’ High School.