THE VICTORIA MEMORIAL.
A MONUMENTAL WORK. [Bt Electric Telegraph—Copyr.iGHT.] (Pep. Press Association.) London, May 15. Mr Brock, the sculptor of the memorial, interviewed, stated that it would In; eighty-two feet Irigli, one hundred and four feet in diameter, and three thousand tons in weight. It would be of Carrara marble, without a single blemisli. The figure of Queen Victoria' would be hewn out of a single block, and other single pieces would weigh forty to;is. There would be six bronze groups on the flanking pedestals and over the fountain arches, which would bo completed,birfc.npt,.erected.
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Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10767, 16 May 1911, Page 4
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94THE VICTORIA MEMORIAL. Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10767, 16 May 1911, Page 4
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