KING GEORGE V.
NATIONAL MEMORIAL. TOTAL OF £690,000 RECEIVED. STATUE AND PLAYING FIELDS. (Official Wlrelesa.) (Received August 14, 11 a.m.) RUGBY’, August 13. Although the appeal for the King George National Memorial Fund was ended last January, subscriptions from the public still arrive and a total of about £590,000 has been received. Of this sum £125,000 is being set aside for the memorial site and statue. The gift by the Government of State property on the selected site was equivalent to another £BO,OOO. The remainder of tho fund is being used for the establishment of playing fields, to be known as "King George’s Fields," and the sum 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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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20272, 14 August 1937, Page 7
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135KING GEORGE V. Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20272, 14 August 1937, Page 7
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