Great Fortune Given for New Navy School
DONOR IN NEW ZEALAND AN Englishman at present living in New Zealand is giving a new naval school to the nation, at a cost of almost £1,000,000. (United P.A. —By Telegraph — Copyright) (Australian P.A. —United Service)
Reed. 9.5 a.m. LONDON, Sunday. A munificent gift by Mr. G. S. Reade, who at present is residing in , New Zealand, enables the building of a new naval school at Holbrook, Suffolk, whither 1,000 boys at present being educated at the Royal Hospital, Greenwich, will remove when it is completed. The buildings and equipment will cost nearly £1,000,000. Mr. Reade is defraying the cost of the buildings, besides presenting a
property of SSO acres, on which he formerly lived. It has belonged to i his ancestors for generations, and he makes the gift in appreciation of the Navy’s gallantry in the wartime. The Admiralty has now let a contract for the buildings, which will take four years to complete. The new* school will enable the Macpherson collection of naval prints eevntually to be installed at Queen’s House, Greenwich, wrhere the school is at present established.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 407, 16 July 1928, Page 9
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188Great Fortune Given for New Navy School Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 407, 16 July 1928, Page 9
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