His Excellency the Governor-General accompanied by the Countess of Lived pool, invested several citizens with the Order of the British Empire in the chamber of the Provincial Council Buildings this morning. He attended the races this afternoon. He will leave for Wellington on Saturday evening.
In Siam a magnate’s dignity and power are reckoned according to the number of umbrellas he possesses. One of these magnates is proud to begin his titles with “ Lord of Thirty-seven Umbrellas.” Among certain African tribes the grandeur-of the individual increases with the size, and not with the number, of the umbrellas ho possesses. ;
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 12718, 13 August 1919, Page 5
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