NEW NAVAL SCHOOL
N.Z. RESIDENT’S GREAT GIFT
(Australian Press Association.) (By Cable—Press Assn—Copyright.)
(Recd. July 16, 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, July 15. The munificent gift by G. S. Reade, at present residing in New Zealand, enables the building of the new naval school at Holbrook, Suffolk, where a. thousand boys at present are beingeducated. The Royal Hospital, Greenwich will remove when the new building is completed. The buildings and equipment will cost nearly a million. Mr Reade is defraying the cost pf the buildings, besides presenting the property of 850 acres on which he formerly lived, and which belonged to his ancestors for generations. It is given in appreciation of the navy’s gallantry in wartime. The Admiralty has now contracted .for the building. It will take four years to complete. This will'enable the MacPherson collection to be eventually installed at Queen’s House, Greenwich, where the school is at present established.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 16 July 1928, Page 7
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