HIS WEIGHT IN GOLD
AGA KHAN'S GENEROSITY His Highness tho Aga Khan, was recently weighed in the scales at Bombay Against a heap of gold. Tho treasure needed to balance him weighed 16 stone, .Worth about £25,000. Part of it will he distributed to the poor. This ceremony was pari pf the celebration of His Highness's Colden Jubilee as head of the great sect of Isniaeli, Mahommedans, of whom there flre about 5,000,000 all over Asia. The main , celebrations were held in Bombay, where thousands of Khojas, as the Aga Khan's -followers are known, assembled. Leading men and women of communities were present*
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22350, 22 February 1936, Page 29 (Supplement)
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103HIS WEIGHT IN GOLD New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22350, 22 February 1936, Page 29 (Supplement)
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