GENEROUS ROTHERMERE
SAVES HOSPITAL SITE FROM BUILDERS
£50,000 FOR THE OPTION (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) Reed. 1.30 p.m. LONDON, Sunday. In order to save a foundling hospital site of nine acres off Gray’s Inn Road from the builders. Lord Rothermere purchased it for £525,000, paying £50,000 in order to secure the option until June, 1931. Lord Rothermere also offers £50,000 toward the purchase, making £IOO,OOO, if the entire site is converted into a children’s park, being used for one month of each year as a camping ground for British Boy Scouts.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 638, 15 April 1929, Page 9
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92GENEROUS ROTHERMERE Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 638, 15 April 1929, Page 9
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