A CURIOUS CUSTOM.—Under the will of a former clerk of the Treasury, an annual payment is made to seven poor boys, who, with their hands on his gravestone in Wotton Churchyard, repeat, extracts from the Bible and write two yerses.
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Taranaki Daily News, 17 March 1931, Page 5
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40A CURIOUS CUSTOM.—Under the will of a former clerk of the Treasury, an annual payment is made to seven poor boys, who, with their hands on his gravestone in Wotton Churchyard, repeat, extracts from the Bible and write two yerses. Taranaki Daily News, 17 March 1931, Page 5
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