London, Mar. 9.
Grants totalling £405,000 for social and cultural purposes in the Unitet Kingdom were announced at yesterday's annual meeting of the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust.
The new grants, which are for a period of five years from the begin-hing of 1990, include £150,000 for Jand settlement in distressed dis. tricts, which will be distributed in ce-operation with the Land Settlement Association recently establishes on the initiative of the Ministry of Agriculture.
The Government have promised ancial assistance, and the commissioner for spetal areas has und tal responsibility of developing remaining grants are for the extension of public Uibraries. museums, village halls and other social and cultural purposes.
It is revealed that the trust as} already distributed £2,528,000 in Britain during its life-time—Wireless through Reuter.
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