NEW NAVAL SCHOOL
MUNIFICENT GIFT BY NEW ZEALANDER.. (Received 8.50 a.m.) United Press Asssn—-By Electric T elegraph—Copyright. LONDON, July i.*>. A munificent gift hv G. S. Roade, at present residing in New Zealand, enables the building of a new naval school at Holbrook (Suffolk), where 1000 bovs r.(e at present being educated. The Royal Hospital, Greenwich. will be removed when the new building is completed.. The buildings ana equipment will cost nearly a million. Reade is defraying the cost of the buildings, besides presenting a property of 85 acres, on which he formerly lived, and which belonged to ancestors for generations. It is given in appreciation of the navv’s gallantry in wartime. The Admiralty has now contracted for the buildings, wlii-oh will take four years to complete. This will enable the Maopherson collection to; be eventually installed at Queen’s lionise. Greenwich. where the- school is at present established. Sun cable.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10888, 16 July 1928, Page 6
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