A FINE MEMORIAL
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IN FRONT OF MARLBOROUGH
HOUSE.
THE LATE KING EDWARD
(Received March 24, 9 a.m.)
LONDON, March 23
Mr Bertram Maekennal, the sculptor, has been commissioned to execute the King Edward Memorial for London, and proposes a fourteen •feet- high statue of 'King Edward below a figure of "Peace," with a processional group delineating the arts of Peace, and a similar group round the figure of "Britannia," on the St. James' Park side of the memorial/ 1 The whole work will,be fifty feet ,; .'jiir-'MackeuJhal suggests that there be a flight of steps connecting the memorial with the widened avenue and bridge over the lake in the park. The bridge is being designed by Mr Edwin Lutyens, F.S.A., F.R.I. 8.A., the well-known architect and artist. It is calculated onat the work will be completed in five years.
(Bertram Mackennal, A.R.A., the 6on of a sculptor, was borri in Melbourne in 1863. He has resided for many years in England, where ther© are many sitriking examples of his art. The cost of widening the avenue and bridge at St. James' Park is estimated at £20,000. - The whole memorial will cost £50,000.)
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10196, 25 March 1911, Page 5
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197A FINE MEMORIAL Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10196, 25 March 1911, Page 5
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