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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 249, 9 February 1917, Page 1 (Supplement)

| WEATHER-VANE LECKXD. I Tha C ity c;' London has sonic peculiar ' vanti Oil 'th© spires o! >•uno oi if.s | cliurdios. Iho most curious ot all are ! tho grassliopp; r vane 011 the Hovel Exj chango and the dragon oil the kilty ' steeple of IJo.v Ktieet ill Cheap-nTe. The i golden grasshopper was the crest of Sir i Thomas Civshani, the great- iner. hant of | Qiioc n Khz il'ctli'.- reign. TTe it was w7:o built tli(> lir-t Royal Exchange. and -o it was quite appropriate that tho tower 0 ftlio present blinding should still (T:sp!ay his device. A legend prophesied ! disasters to the City of London w lie:; the | gtass'ioppor of the Hoy.'il Exchange and i Mio dragon ( f Mow Church s!ioi;!d meet, 'this s< ciiicd to lie so unlikely ever to happen tea : l wa-: regarded as an eX( ep--1 loiiallv (piaiut kind of joke—a -much as j 't. would he if we were to imagine the I .Monument in the City side h\ side w t!i ! t ht> Albert. Memorial in Kensington fiardons. H•:t the meei illg took place, i some fifty voirs ago, when iho dragon nd li e gras-hopper were taken do.', n at the same time, to lie rogi'dod. ell 1 rri [M'-ed .i do hy s't'e in the yard, hut nothing happened.