NOBLE BENEFACTION

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 February 1943, Page 4

NOBLE BENEFACTION

ACCLAIMED IN BRITISH PRESS. OBJECTS OF THE NUFFIELD TRUST. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, February 13. The objects which the trustees of the charitable trust which Lord Nuffield has endowed with a capital fund of £10,000,000, will endeavour to assist are: (1) Medical research and teaching; (2) the organisation and development of medical health services; (3) scientific research and teaching in the interests of trade and industry; (4) pursuit of social studies; (5) care and comfort for the aged. The normal scope of the trust’s activities will be Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Attention may, however, be given to projects particularly affecting the Empire, and in regard to items (1) and (2) provisions for scholarships and other assistance for Empire students is included. The managing trustees of the Nuffiedd Foundation are: Sir William Goodenough, chairman, Sir J. S. B. Stopford, vice-chairman, Professor F. L. Engedow, the Hon. G. Gibbs, Sir H. Hetherington, Sir H. T. Tizard and Miss Janet Vaughan. Warm tributes are paid to Lord Nuffield in the national Press, “The Times” stating that the new benefaction is essentially a gift to the Empire and should go far to secure the setting up in Britain of great centres of scientific investigation where the pioneering mind can work untrammelled. The “Daily Telegraph” describes Lord Nuffield as one of the greatest stimulators of industrial progress in our time. The estimated annual income of the trust is £400,000, free of tax-i