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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 183, 1 May 1929, Page 11

A recipient of income tax forms sent the following note to Mr. Churchill: — “Dear Sir, —I return your forms herewith, as I do not wish to join the income tax. I am already insured.” The Dean and the five Canons of Westminster Abbey have not had any increases in their salaries since 1840. The dean receives a stipend of £2OOO a year, the canons getting £lOOO apiece. There are to be 27,000 Boy Scouts at the great jamboree to be held in August at the Wirral Peninsula. For obvious reasons ukuleles, banjos, whistles, and mouth-organs are to be banned. By «peclal arrangement Reuter's worm •ervice, in addition to other specla’ sources ot information, is used in the com pilation of the overseas Intelligence therein in Australia and New Zealand, published in ibis lune. and aU rights ax* reserved.