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-J I iiiffl I WMh f ~» iw«. ■ CHRISTCHURCH POST OFFICE Tl/T 1 il 4 jMBB Men and the Arms •-.» JSL * -~' There are nearly 80 Gules means red Three Kings of Arms — of some cardinals. Over : Q Jg coats of arms in Christ- And vert means green. Garter; Clarenceaux; Nor- the centuries there were C--|EiMßfc|B|-Z WmTFhW •< church Cathedral. Each of That j S really quite roy/Ulster. occasional official protests * IBBRBF lhe w * ndows in f* l6 side easy, but not so easv is Six Heralds — York; that church dignitories -- -* - aisles has the arms of | e f t an( j right. If you look Lancaster; Richmond; were making their arms ' ''' ■. “ / - 0 y- English and Welsh dioc- a[ a shield the left side is Chester; Windsor; too elaborate. Some car- .. ■ “jZ eses — some 27 of them called dexter, the right Somerset. dinals today feel that W < ggB&QBBR.. -.*%, K"Ast' — and eight New Zealand side is called sinister. But, Four Pursuivants — coats of arms are not deNORTH CANTERBLRY dioceses are represented y OU ma y c ay “surely Bluemantle; Rouge Croix; mocratic, and two of the , <-U 4 ’ ■ HOSPfTAI Bmon above the panelling in the ‘dexter’ is Latin’for ‘right : Rouge Dragon: Portcullis. present cardinals have re- CZ’J V-. V/ ii ar i. l. duaku sanctuary by the high anc j -sinister’ for ‘left’.” In Scotland, there are: fused to have coats of ! ' V 'JgSRS.., .Thy altar: and then there are Yes, that is true, but we The Lyon King of Arms. arms. You could tell the P L T”? jmWßnh't' -m the arms of nations, gov- are talking about*a shield. Three Heralds — Al- rank of an official in the *S’ JtL■ ernments, and individuals. The right of my shield as bany; Marchmont; Roth- Roman Catholic Church HbBOBr ± l^'a t S i e,t “ ,0U ' aS “Tire. Pursuits - 5 S«I CaSl : ”> S o*t£2n * d f?Xr P fnt P n tho iJ> ™ k canons three. ’} h 1™ ° be; hi« M Why sh ° uld there be a 1 feel that COatS ° f armS JiQlffb cases supported ;on either Ixlc' scfenc? with cen- unicorn from Scotland? A are delightful things, if ’,vh?o P h m»v ho o„7 nf troHiHnn “nrt relative of the Loch Ness you do not take them too U* roafs or h peonle b The there are many experts Mon ster, perhaps! Any- seriously. They add a bit : nf Xff, oAn oil way, when James VI of of colour to our modern .A c 'UDKTCin DCI4 ar® 6 thf U hnnkf and hoinno tn Scotland became James I prosaic life, and I greatly CHRISTCHURCH coat of arms are the lion the books and belong to of Englan< j j, e brought the deplore the “computer L and the unicorn. *?n unicorn with him, and type” emblems, adopted "r, w ' W'" 4 TRANSPORT BOARD So far everything is ’ made it a supporter with by the Post Office, the simple, except that it is maga. . the lion in the British coat North Canterbury Hospital y -iMIB wrong to refer to the coat of arms is only o f arms j n 1603. Board, the Christchurch “crest” above the shield, “official if it has been There is quite a clear Transport Board, the ‘ Technically, it is “the approved and registered department of heraldry in Drainage Board and the ’ F < « helm” above the shield, by the College of Heralds, church affairs. The arms Harmonic Society. Why |L > ' ~'jgk . The crest is really the This may cost many nun- o f a bishop are often not spend two or three I j plume above the helm or dreds of dollars. Until a double. His own coat of hundred dollars and ask I ' ftjMßlh helmet. When the experts few years ago, two of the arms j s put a iongside the an artist to give each one F • ‘ describe a coat of arms N ew Zealand diocesan coat o f arms o f his dioc- of them a proper coat of & ”, ' - ~ if ■ they use a special lan- arms were not registered, ese This is called “im- arms, or at least some de- V guage, as, for example in and tb ' s § oes * or some paled.” In the Cathedral corative symbol? And, of fc-- ; these colours: our local boroughs. we have the arms of course, none of the county Wj’ySable means black The College of Arms is Archbishop Julius and Bis- councils have arms or ' / Or means gold presided over by the Eart hop Harper. symbols, save Eyre V, Argent means silver or Marshall, the Duke of In a recent heraldry County, which has a ' - BKsggß white Norfolk, and consists of magazine, strong exception wheatsheaf, part of its IfeM; ~■ ’ Azure means blue people with lovely titles: is taken to the behaviour official seal. ‘ CHRISTCHURCH Z ' DRAINAGE BOARD gj J V CM< w lib ra s® 0 . OHWTCHURCH \/ \U/ VZ xF \z XZ VZ F* HMUTIOniC Auckland Dunedin Melanesia Nelson Polynesia Waiapu Wellington Waikato ,TO AJL SOCIETV Aotearoa Modem computer-type The arms of eight New Zealand dioceses. The three stars are said to represent the North Island, The coat of arms of William Rolleston in the North Aisle of Christchurch symbols. South Island, and Stewart Island. Dunedin has the arms of its first bishop, Net ill. Cathedral. A literal translation of the motto is, “Thus and better perhaps.”