KING’S WOODCOCK PIE.
Outside official circles few people in the Irish Free State were aware, before it was recently disclosed, of the custom of the Governor-General to present to the King every Christmas woodcocks ‘‘halted in a pie." The custom dates hack imirli further and was observed h\ the viceroys. When he relinquished office on the dawn of the new regime. Lord Fit /.ala n. (he last of the viceI'ovs, expressed the wish lhat the cu--toin should he continued by Ids successors. and -Mr “Tim" Mealy. Ihe first. Governnr-fleneral. complied. Mr .Limes McNeill, the present holder of the office. continues the practice of his predecessor. The humorous comment has been made that, supposing, true to Hie nursery rhyme, the birds began to
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Dunstan Times, Issue 3463, 31 March 1930, Page 7
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122KING’S WOODCOCK PIE. Dunstan Times, Issue 3463, 31 March 1930, Page 7
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