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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18751, 3 January 1923, Page 9

Hazel II of Morden, an Illawarra milking Shorthorn heifer, bred and owned by Mr R. Hears, of Morden Farm, Toogoolnwah, Q„ has completed a 2T17 days’ test, and has yielded 87941 b milk and 460.411 b commorcia.' butter. She was a year and 250 days old when she started her test. Hazel II of Morden is by George of Nestles (126), from Hazel of Morden (1009). Although Britain ha? long been famed for bells and bell-ringers, we have not hitherto succeeded in producing from our belfries such harmonies as meet the ear in old-world Dutch and Flemish cities. The deficiency is to be remedied by the National School of Carillonours, which has tust been started at Loughborough. A carillon is an extended scale of liells, consisting of two or more octaves. It is played from what is known as the clavier, or keyboard, the player controlling the notes by striking them with the side of the hand. Besides being the centre of the bell-founding industry, Loughborough is bringing further distinction to the country by erecting a belfry containing the most perfect carillon in the world. Forty-seven bells, the biggest weighing five tons, are being bung in a tower 150 ft high, at a cost of £20.000. At present there are not more than half a dozen of these aerial orchestras in Britain. Queenstown Cathedral boasts the finest, while others are to be heard at South Shields at the Bournvillo Schools, Birmingham, and at Cattistock, in Dorset. Many whoso acquaintance with bells is limited to those of Hie parish church imagine, quite wrongly, that the amount cf music capable of being played on a carillon is very small. The visitor to Bruges, Rotterdam, Brussels, and other Continental cities may hoar almost any day a largo volume of music, classical au’well as new, played by the city carilloneur. It is not unlikely that in a few year* the onrillon will he as familiar a (nature of many of our cities and towns as |t U of those of Holland and Belgium.