READERS’ QUERIES

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21218, 14 September 1940, Page 9

READERS’ QUERIES

»4«4ander.” —Th* South Island or New Zealand Is the 10th largest Island In the world, having 1 an area or 55.500 square miles. The .North Island comes li*tn ntth an area or 4 4,500 square miles The world’s largest Island. IT Australia and Greenland are excluded hem* nroperlv continents), Is New Guinea, which has an area or 330.000 square mile?. •“Re*.** —Buckingham Palace, which was damaged in German air raids on London, was erected ror George IV in KS2S. Queen victoria also used It a- h**r London residence and considerable Improvements to the Palire were made by her v>n. King Edward VII. King George V made great extensions to the Royal home and since then it has been one oi the finest palaces In the world. **r.A.B.” — The Apocrypha j* the title given to certain Hebrew writing* which tr»not regarded as canonical by the Jews but ate received by the Roman Catholic Church. The Protestant Churches regard them as historical records only. The Apocryphal b<*ok a include 1 and -2 hsdras. roblt. Judith, Esther x-xvt, wisdom. Eccle*i;i-tini-. Baruch, sons of the Three Holy Children, pci and th*j Hr agon, the Prayer or Manage*, and t and .* Macrabus. The Aptwal.xp-p is the name given to the ia*t book *>r tn« New Testament, that |«, the |».m>k «>r t.'io Revelation of St. John the Divine. •Superstitious."—The werewolf. in-ord-Ing to a superstition once current in the Old World, was a human whir changed into a wolf but endowed with . the Middle Ages many men were enarge.i with being werewolves and pit te death. •Navy.”—The 1 unard liner Lusitan a was torpedoc.l and sunk by a German sun marine oIT the old Head -f kmsaie. Ireland. on May 7, 1"15 The loss ot nearly 1500 lives In this disaster, one of the worst during the Great War, «tlrred the conscience of the civilised world, and In the United States or America public opinion was arc-used to war-pitch.