CARNEGIE FUND

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 19 November 1927, Page 10

CARNEGIE FUND

TO HELP SOUTH AFRICA.

IN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH.

Durban, Transvaal. Two representatives of the Carnegie Corporation, in the persons of Dr. f. I'. Keppel, president, and James Bertram, its secretary, recently visited Natal in their tour of South Africa with a view to ascertaining in what directions the funds available with the corporation may be used for the benefit of the union. The corporation has a sum of £2,000 000 bearing an annual income oi £lOO.000, which K to be devoted to the advancement and diffsuiou of knowledge and understanding in Canada and the British Colonies.

Canada, is appears, has been the chief beneficiary in tile matter of assistance by the corporation for the advancement of research in the past, and the extension of their activities to other British colonies is the reaauu for Ilia present visit.

Dr. Keppel says in part: “We are not seeking to establish institutions, but to encourage ideas that have already found some measure of ex pression. We are not building libraries, but in South Africa our attention has been devoted to problems in general education and scientific research, with particular joference to the native peoples. “1 am not, at the present stage of our tour, in a position to discuss South Africa's educational system or its weaknesses. Wherever possible, the corporation would adhere strictly to the assistance of institutions that aimed at similar objects to those desired by Mr Carnegie himself. Tho assistance would be strictly apart from all political or racial consideration, and schemes would ' be weighed purely on their merits as tending toward wider culture or more able scientific research.”