MUNIFICENT GIFT
TO BRITISH ADMIRALTY
United Press Association—By Eleotrio Telegraph—Copyright. United Service.
(Received 16th Julv, 8.50 a.m.) LONDON, 15th July
A munificent gift by Mr G. S. Reade, at present residing in New Zealand, enables the building of a new naval school at Holbrook, Suffolk, where a thousand, boys are at present being educated. The Royal Hospital at Greenwich will be removed when the new building is completed. Buildings and equipment will cost nearlv £1,000,000. Mr Reade is defraying the cost of the buildings, besides presenting the property of 840 acres, on which he formerly lived and which had belonged to his ancestors for generations. It was given in appreciation of the navy's gallantry in -wartime. The Admiralty has now contracted lor the buildings, which will take lour 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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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 16 July 1928, Page 5
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152MUNIFICENT GIFT Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 16 July 1928, Page 5
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