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Dunstan Times, Issue 3333, 9 August 1926, Page 8

A christening in the Boyal Family used to lie an elaborate and costly affair, hut the tendency now is towards simplicity. King Edward was chrisi toned in St. George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle, and it was stated at the time that the banquet following the ceremony cost £200,000—-a figure which should be taken with a grain of salt. Tho total cost of working the ■'U.OUO.OOO motor vehicles in the United Si;i(.cs is £°.800.000 000 nor annum. : claimed that this money is well spent, the nation’s increased commercial efficiency, wealth, and having newer being attributed to the speeding up of its transport system. It js recorded that an American " ■i-ilf Bill once cost the United States two million dollars through the wrontr'■’4 insertion of a comma. This bill nrov'ded. among ciTier things, that ‘•foreign fruit plants, etc., should be admitted free of duty, the aim of tire Government being to stimulate the interest of farmers in the cultivation of grape vines with’n the States. When the bill was printed, however, a comma was erroneously inserted between ‘‘fruit” and plants/’ and as the hill was passed before the mistake was discovered. oranges, bananas, lemons, "■rapes, and other fruits went into the United States free of duty for a whole voar.