OBITUARY

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 137, 6 December 1929, Page 16

OBITUARY

MB. GIFFORD SHEARMAN READE

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)

AUCKLAND, sth December. The death occurred to-night of Mr Gifford Sherman Reade, aged Si.

Mr. Reade was the donor of land and money for a Naval College to be built at Holbrooke, Suffolk, England, amounting in all to about £1,000,000.

■Mr. Reade spent thirty-five years in •India, where he amassed a large fortune, and came to New Zealand fourteen years ago.

: Jn July of last year Mr. Reade annotneed his gift to the British nation of 'land and money to enable tho building; of a new naval school at Holbrook, Suffolk, to which a thousand boys, at present being educated at the Royal Naval School at Greenwich Hospital, will be moved, when completed. The buildings, and equipment will cost nearly a million pounds. Mr. Reade defrayed the cost of the buildings, besides presenting the property of 850 acres, on which he formerly lived, and which belonged to his ancestors for generations. His gift was in appreciation of the Navy's gallantry fn war time. The Admiralty signed a contract for th.c erection of the building, which will take four years to complete. ' Its erection will enable the faimous ' Macpherson collection to be eventually installed at Queen's House; Greenwich, where the school is at pre : seiit established.

•Recently the ■Wellington Centre of the New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association, made application to the City Cmincil for a reduction from 20 per cent.' to 15 per cent, in the charge for the flee of the Basin Kcscrve for daylight' sports meetings. The Reserves Committee recommended last night that the application should not be approved.