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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 305, 20 September 1919, Page 6

The funeral of the Knjah of Sarawak. Sir Charles Antony Brooke, nephew of the first linjah, Sir.lames Brooke took place at the- moorland village of Sheep"tor. Devon. The Me.Rajah died two years ago, the embalmed body having reinained in a vault for two yrors prod- | ing the arrival in England of he present llfliah and llanee." The cofiin. coicred with' tho national flag of Sarawak, was carried In Hie grave near the first , Utah's torn!) by local residents. I lift moiirhers included the Tkneo. Marsrnret. (widow), the Kajah'aw! Kanw of ' s Ui a'nd dnughtor,in-law, Cant; m ; Brooke (son), and a representative of the ] Sarawak Civil Sen-ice. A proposal is now before- the Guernsey' Stales to grant State aid to workmen with large families to the extent or : 2s. fid. per week for the fourth child anil over. The'cost is to'.be defrayed by a fox. mi'bachelors'of S" par cent on wages, : begin'niiig'.:al.3oft.'per week, or a per cent, ou total incomes, "