1400 LEAP YEAR BABIES.

Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19816, 21 February 1936, Page 9

1400 LEAP YEAR BABIES.

RESULT OF EXTRA DAY. £2,000,000 .MORE IN DUTIES. LONDON, January 21. Fourteen hundred extra babies will be born this year. They will only have a birthday once every four years—on February ,29 — Leap Year Day. That is one of the results of Leap Year. But there are others. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, for instance, will oollect £2,000,000 more in Customs and Excise duties and revenues of various kinds, . because the financial year contains the extra day. People will do an extra day’s drinking of beer; and the beer duty yield will go up accordingly. Export and import figures will also increase by more than £1,000,000 each. But on the other side of. the account there is an extra day’s pay fo be found for soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Civil servants. KING EDWARD’S HOME. TO LIVE AT YORK HOUBE. QUEEN TO REMAIN AT PALACE. LONDON, January 23. It is understood that, aifter the return of the Royal family to London, the King will continue to live at York House, St. James’s Palace, probably’ for six months or longer. He has already taken over a suite of rooms at Buckingham Palace for the conduct of official business. It is understood that the King has decided on this arrangement out of consideration for the convenience of the Queen. Her Majesty has a private suite of rooms at the Palace to which she is greatly attached. Ultimately, however, her Majesty may make her home in Marlborough House, which was the home of Queen Alexandra from the time of King Edward’s death. His Homo For 17 Years. Marlborough House is in the gift of the King. Although it was prepared for the reception of King Edward when Prince of Wales, it lias not been occupied since it was given up by the late Princess Victoria after the death of her mother, Queen Alexandra. York House constitutes the suite bf rooms at St James’s Palace on the north side of Ambassadors’ Court. It was formerly the residence of the late King George when he was Duke of York. King Edward, as Prince of Wales, lias lived there since 1919. The ground floor contains a banqueting room, seating about 30 guests, a large reception room, and several smaller rooms* which are used by the King’s secretaries. The first floor contains a large reception room, the King’s bedroom, sitting room, workroom, and a small gymnasium.