KING GEORGE MEMORIAL
SITE FOR BRONZE STATUE NEAR WESTMINSTER ABBEY LONDON, Oct. 27. (Received Oct. 27, at 10.45 p.m.) The statue of King George V is being erected on a site specially cleared near Westminster Abbey. It will be of bronze and 10ft high, and the figure will be in naval uniform and wearing the Garter robes. The Memorial Fund has reached £590,000, of which £391,000 has been allotted to playing fields throughout Britain. Sixteen hundred are under consideration. ,
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23334, 28 October 1937, Page 12
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79KING GEORGE MEMORIAL Otago Daily Times, Issue 23334, 28 October 1937, Page 12
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