GIFT OF £2,000,000
RICH AMERICAN OFFERS TO HELP BRHAIN EDUCATION AND WELFARE LONDON, Thursday. Interest has been aroused by an announcement that Mr.. Edward Harkuess, an American railway magnate of Scottish descent, proposes to devote a large sum of money to educational and social work in Britain. The amount Mr. Harkness will spend In this way is understood in Parliamentary circles to be at least £2.000,000. The Leader of the Conservatives. Mr. Stanley Baldwin, possibly will be a member of the committee which is to recommend outlets for the fund. However, nothing is likely to be decided hastily. RAJAH’S DONATION British Official Wireless RUGBY, Wednesday. The Rajah of Sarawak has decided that the unallocated balance, amounting to £25,000, of his gift of £IOO,OOO to the British Government shall be offered to the Imperial Forestry Institute. The main portion of the gift is to be used as a fund to assist in the education of children of colonial civil servants.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1033, 25 July 1930, Page 11
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159GIFT OF £2,000,000 Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1033, 25 July 1930, Page 11
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