MEMORIAL TO KING GEORGE

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21760, 17 April 1936, Page 13

MEMORIAL TO KING GEORGE

CHOICE OF SITE FOR STATUE USES FOR PHILANTHROPIC FUND (BRITISH OFFICIAL WIEILE3S.) (Received April 16, 5.5 p.m.) RUGBY, April 15. The committees considering proposed schemes for a national memorial to King George V. have now considerably narrowed the field of choice. , , A statue will be erected either on a site on the west side of Parliament square, where a suggestion for the preservation as an open space of the land occupied by Westminster House has been under consideration for some time, or on a site to the south-east of Westminster Abbey, where the demolition of houses in Abingdon street and the old palace yard would give new and majestic views of the Abbey and the Henry VII. chapel. The final decision as to the site will depend on financial considerations, as it is desired that the largest part of the fund raised should be available for a philanthropic scheme. Proposals for the latter include; First, a medical research fund, probably directed principally to the problem of cancer, and allowing for the provision of additional supplies of radium; second, cottage homes for the aged; and third, hostels for young people transferred away from home on account of unemployment.