MAGNIFICENT GIFT
NEW NAVAL SCHOOL.
ALSO ARE 4 OF 850 ACRES,
IN APPRECIATION OF THE. NAVY
United I‘reaa Aa«<*iatjon —By Electric Telegrap!/ Copyright.) —United Service). Received 9.45 a.m. to-day. LONDON, July 15. A. magnificent gift by Mr G. S. Rcade, at present residing in New Zealand enables the building of a new naval s'chool at Holbrook, 'Suffolk, where a thousand boys arc at present being educated. The royal hospital at Greenwich will remove when the now building is completed. The buildings and equipment will cost nearly a million.
Mr Reade is defraying the cost of the buildings, besides presenting a property' of 850 acres, on which he formerly' lived and which had belonged - to his ancestors for generations. The gift is made in appreciation of 'the Navy's gallantry in the war. The Admiralty has now let a contract for the buildings, which will take four years to complete. This will enable the MhlelPherson collection to be eventually installed at Queen’s House, Greenwich, where tlie school is at present established.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 16 July 1928, Page 7
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