COMMANDMENTS CUT ON HOCK. ‘ Cut into the granite crag which towers on tlm crest of Buckingham Beacon, a height on Dartmoor not far froin the town "of Ashburton, are the Ten Gummalm! mentis. Thy work, flinch was carried out under the instructions of Mr. Willian Whitley, a gentleman farmer of Woolston, the master of the South Devon foxhounds, who recently figured in the filming of some <>r Kden Phillpottss stories, and who is reputed lo be a millionaire, has just been completed. Tt commemorates the defeat of the effort to revise the Prayer Book. Mr. Whitley, who is a native of Lancashine, and has close connections in Liverpool, declined to state his motive for having tho engraving made in such a unique snot, hut the dates on the stone, December Id, 1917—June UL 1928, betrayed that the revisionary measure had influenced the instigator of the inscriptions.
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 November 1928, Page 1
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