STATUE OF THE KING
• • ' ■• ! ;v**• >; :V. • • • ' ERECTION ;AT . NEW . DELHI
A MARK OF LOYALtY i British Official ,Wtrel ess.- ,'■■■.> . RUfjBI//Ahgast/25.‘ (Received A«g»st ; 27»y , -A statue representing the' King/'irearing the coronation .robes -.winch.-. jic/'WO're at Delhi in 1911 is to be erected at New Delhi, by the ruling princes'; and ’ cjiibfa of India, as a mark of loyalty and attachment. The. sculptor ’wiU;'be,'.'Mr/.0.-;.S. Jagger, artist of the. Royal Artillery Memorial, at Hyde -Park, corner. : Th e total height of the pedestal and statue will be 53 feet 3 inches frdm the ground level. The figure of the King'/will/be 18 feet 9 inches high. Mr dagger ia. now working on half -and/ fullAiise •' models, which will be sent .to New .-Dbihb jwhere the actual carving in stoiie .wilFhe "done by -Indian craftsmen. - >-/
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22352, 28 August 1934, Page 7
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130STATUE OF THE KING Otago Daily Times, Issue 22352, 28 August 1934, Page 7
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