“HEART OF GOLD”

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 March 1939, Page 5

“HEART OF GOLD”

ANOTHER GENEROUS GIFT BY LORD NUFFIELD SUM OF £7,500 FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN. TRIBUTES BY MINISTERS & OTHERS. 'By Telegraph—Press Association > WELLINGTON, This Day. A cheque for £7.500 was handed last night to Sir Charles Norwood, chairman of directors of Dominion Motors, Ltd, by Viscount Nuffield for the trustees of the Nuffield Trust to assist lhe crippled children of New Zealand. This was announced by Sir Charles at the dinner tendered Lord Nuffield in the Hotel St George last night and attended by Cabinet Ministers, leaders of commerce and industry and representatives of local bodies and the professions. Sir Charles said that since the great calamity of fires in Australia in the alleviation of which Lord Nuffield had assisted he had decided that something must be done for New Zealand. He was very pleased by what had been done by the 16’ branches of the Crippled Children Society in the Dominion, and he had decided that this gift should be handed to the trustees of the Nuffield Trust. “I know you will agree with me when I say God bless Lord Nuffield,” said Sir Charles. The Minister of Public Works, Mr Semple, said he regarded Lord Nuffield as one of the greatest living Englishmen. “He has a heart of gold and realises that wc- are all trustees' of a great heritage,” said the Minister, “Would to God there were more Lord Nuffields in the world.” On rising •to reply to the toast to him, Lord Nuffield was greeted with sustained applause and accorded musical honours. “I can only assure you of the very great pleasure it gives me to come to this great little country of yours again, and to do what I can in a small way to help,” Lord Nuffield said. “Sir Charles Norwood and Mr Semple have said many kinds things about me. I feel that I have only done that which I should have done.” Lord Nuffield added that during a business career one should at any rate try to do nis very best for his workmen, but many people had done that. But it was not so long . ago that he had a surprise when the workmen of the Wolseley Company, which he owned, subscribed in shillings to buy the boss a motor-car. “Gentlemen, that has meant more to me than many things in this world—that my workmen like me, and I can say in return I am very fond of them.” The Minister of Finance, Mr Nash, replying later in the evening to the toast of “Parliament,” also paid a tribute to the work and generosity of Lord Nuffield. “On the evidence I have,” said Mr Nash, “he has already given away more than £10,000,000.”