LORD NUFFIELD

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 March 1939, Page 4

LORD NUFFIELD

VISIT TO MASTERTON TOMORROW CIVIC LUNCHEON & RECEPTION. Lord Nuffield, who arrived in Wellington yesterday from Australia, will pay a visit to Masterton tomorrow, when he will be entertained at a civic luncheon in the Midland Hotel at 1 p.m. In the Opera House, at 2.30 p.m.. he will be given a civic reception at which a large attendance of the public is expected. Later in the afternoon. Lord Nuffield will present special, prizes at the Masterton Flower Show. WORK EULOGISED. GATHERING IN WELLINGTON. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. This Day. Tributes to a great Englishman, who was described by speakers as among th greatest of the day, were paid at a dinner given in honour of Viscount Nuffield by the chairman of directors of Dominion Motors, Ltd., Sir Charles Norwood, at the Hotel St. George last night and attended by Cabinet Ministers, leaders of industry, local body representatives and professional men. Proposing the toast of Lord Nuffield, Sir Charles Norwood said Lord Nuffield was one of the Empire’s great men—one of those quiet workers on whom Imperial statesmen might lean with every confidence. Lord Nuffield’s prominence in the industrial world was no piece of luck. He had made a great sacrifice during the Great War when he threw to the four winds his vast organisation and gave his entire facilities and ability to the production of munitions regardless of profit, and he would do it again. The Imperial Government, added Sir Charles, had sought his aid for defence, and in a few months he would control one of the largest, if not the largest, aeroplane works in the world. Lord Nuffield had been able to’give help to suffering humanity in assisting crippled children, medical research and in his gift of “iron lungs” to- the hospitals of the Empire.