CORPS OF COMMISSIONAIRES.
The New Zealand Corps o£ Commissionaires has now reached a stage of promising efficiency and a degree of public recognition which has encouraged it to look for a firmer basis on which to continue its operations. Hitherto it has been conducted mainly by the personal efforts of the chief commissionaire, Mr. G. H. Faulds. A meeting of the corps held recently decided to send a letter to the Wellington Returned Soldiers' Association requesting that body to consider adopting the corps, which is composed of ex-servicemen, as a branch of the R.S.A.
One and a half million hours' work is represented by a miniature pagoda in Sreen jade • now/ on' exhibition \ jn_; New York. It took 150 Chinese craftsmen 14 years to.-carve it out of solid jade, eight tons in, weight.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 106, 7 May 1934, Page 16
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133CORPS OF COMMISSIONAIRES. Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 106, 7 May 1934, Page 16
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