NEW HEADQUARTERS
ROYAL EMPIRE SOCIETY FINE BUILDING PLANNED LONDON. July 26 After 68 years of occupancy, the Royal Empire Society vacated its premises in Northumberland Avenue, London, to-day, to enable new headquarters to be built on the old site. The society will be. accommodated temporarily in Carlton House Terrace. Tho now building will cost £250,000, and consist of 11 stoics. One floor is to be devoted to the unique library of 2r>0,000 volumes concerning Empire building. There will be dining rooms and considerable bedroom accommodation to make the building a rallying point for the Empire. It will be finished by January, 1936. It is recalled that the society began in a room in the Strand 70 years ago. It has now 17,000 members.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21874, 9 August 1934, Page 11
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