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Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12710, 1 December 1909, Page 4

If King George of Greece be compeJledjtoiabdicate Tie will- not lose a very • magnificent Civil List, for the thrifty Greeks pay puly £53,000. a year "for. the "maintenance of the whole. Royal Family, ; ;and this "amount £'8000l'is earmarked for the household of the Duke of Sparta. The Governments of - Great Britain, France and Russi a add £4000 each to the national contfibu-. tions ;but even with this King George's allowance, is only slightly in excess cf that drawn bythe Norwegian monarch who has only one child to: maintain,: while his uncle at Athens h&j si*. '_•