KING GEORGE V. FUND
BRITISH MEMORIAL. MONEY’ STILL COMING IN. GOVERNMENT’S HELP. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (British Official Wireless.) Received August 14, 10.40 a.in. RUGBY, Aug. 13. Although tlie appeal for the King George National Memorial Fund was ended last January, subscriptions from the public still arrive, and a total of about £690,000 lias been received. Of this sum £125,000 is being' set aside for the memorial site and statue. The gift by the Government of the State property on the selected site was equivalent to another £BO,OOO. The remainder of the fund is being used for the establishment of playing fields to bo known as “King George's Fields,” and the sum now available for this purpose exceeds £431,000. The allocation of this money is in. the hands of an administrative council, of which the Leader of the Opposition is chairman.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 218, 14 August 1937, Page 9
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142KING GEORGE V. FUND Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 218, 14 August 1937, Page 9
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