MEMORIAL TO KING GEORGE
Statue and Playing Fields (British Official Wireless.) (Received May 17, 6.30 p.m.) Rugby, May 16. The executive committee which has bChD considering various schemes for a memorial to the late King has decided that the memory of King George V shall be perpetuated by the erection of a statue on a sight in Abindon Street directly opposite the Victoria Tower of the Houses of Parliament and by playing fields, each adorned with a memorial gate, throughout the length and breadth of the country. The clearing of the Abindon Street site wil! reveal new views of the Henry VII Chapel, and tbe south side of Westminster Abbey.
Lord Macmillan, chairman of the executive, made known this decision to members of the general committee at the Mansion House to-day.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 197, 18 May 1936, Page 9
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131MEMORIAL TO KING GEORGE Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 197, 18 May 1936, Page 9
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