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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12422, 16 April 1926, Page 4

Bigger than Big Ben, Westminster’s famous bell, will be the new bell just ordered from a Croydon firm for export to America. Only one person—the King—is exempt from the payment of postage. Other members of the Royal Family affix stamps to their letters. A gigantic lamp of caudlepower is used to guide nightflvers in the Trans-Continontn] Air Mail Service between Chicago and Cheyenne. Ten feet high but more than 1000 years old is tbe “Kaffir Bread” plant to be seen in the Royal Botanic Garden?. London. It is said to get all its nourishment from an internal source of its own. Stray mineral - water bottles and siphons collected in aSradins of 100 miles round London are taken to a clearing house, where they are identified by certain marks and returned to their 'original owners