IMPERIAL RELATIONS.

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20254, 24 July 1937, Page 7

IMPERIAL RELATIONS.

A GIFT OF £260,000. NOMINATION OF TRUSTEES. ALLOCATION OF THE MONEY. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright LONDON, July 22. As chairman of the Imperial Relations Trust, Earl Baldwin has nominated as trustees the Earl of Clarendon (vice-chairman) ; Sir Walter Citrine, general secretary of the Trades Union Congress; Mr Montagu Norman, Governor of the Bank of England; the Hon. Arthur Howard, brother of Lord Strathcona and son-in-law of Earl Baldwin; Mr Will Spens, a famous Cambridge University educationist; and the Dowager Marchioness of Reading, who was secretary to her husband • and an economic expert before she married him in 1934. On June 21 it was stated that “as a thank-offering for his courageous, farseeing and sympathetic handling of a supremely difficult situation,” an anonymous British donor had placed £250,000 at Earl Baldwin’s disposal. The purpose was that Earl Baldwin should endow “any object best calculated to strengthen still further the ties between fhe Dominions and Britain, which once more demonstrated their solidarity at a time of emergency.” In announcing his acceptance of the gift, Earl Baldwin said steps were being taken to create an independent trust empowered to allocate the money In the interests of inter-imperial relations.