NEW RUMANIAN CAPITAL
QUEEN MARIE'S PLAN. USE OF AMERICAN MONEY, "NEW YORK. Dec, £. Hugh''Kirby, a financier and architect, declares* that one of the chief objects of Queen .Mane's American tour. was to arrange finances for tho construction of a new capital for Uumanin. , George Cook, an America it" architect, who is now in Italy, iias completed plans for a splendid model city on the. hanks of the Danube, ir Eastern Rumania. Mr. Kirby '(expresses tho opinion that Queen Mario's dream will come true through the assistance of American financiers, who have already ■ guaranteed preliminary funds for' underground railways and a marvellous lighting system. King Ferdinand's sickness prevented the, fruition of the scheme before she left America, Mr. Kirby said, : but success U assured, lie believes.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19512, 16 December 1926, Page 13
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