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Taranaki Daily News, 24 November 1934, Page 13 (Supplement)

When the Maharajah of. Gondal celebrates the fifty-first anniversary of his accession to the throne he will, m keeping with native custom, be weighed against a quantity of gold, which will be distributed amongst the poor. Meantime, the people are praying that he will not diet, for at his present weight he is worth, about £15,000 to them. A farmer at Harrismith, Orange Free State, sumamed Schoeman, claims to have the longest string of names in the world. He was christened “Fear not, thou little worm of Jacob, thou little people of Israel, I keep thee. Speak to the Lord and your deliverer is the Holy Israel” Shoeman. To his.friends, he is just “Jacob,’.’- -