Fund Closed at Over Two Lakhs of Sterling London, July 18.
-Thanks to contributions from Britons all over ghe world the fund for a national memorial to the late Queen Alexandra, which closed 'June 30, reached £233,000. The ymmittee announces' that tue sible memorial, the appeal for donations to which met with a generous response especially from the princes of India, will take the form of a bronze group designed by Mr. Alfred Gilbert to be erected at Marlborough House, opposite St. James Palace, The bulk of the fund will go to extend district nursing and to increase the Queen's Nurses Pension Fund, The King in a letter to the or ganizers of the fund says that he is extremely gratified at the result.—Reuter,
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