THE KING A BELL-RINGER

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 65, 8 June 1927, Page 10

THE KING A BELL-RINGER

PROPOSED RADIO EFFORT CANADA’S PEAL OF 53 BELLS That by wireless from London the King will cause the bells of Canada’s monster carillon to peal out for the first time from the tower of the Ottawa Houses of Parliament is the hope of Mr. Mackenzie King, the Dominion Prime Minister. The bells are now ready at the, foundry of Messrs. Gillettt and Johnston, bellfounders, Croydon. They w*ere begun only 18 months age. Together with an electric clock, tb«>will be shipped after Easter, and it is proposed to inaugurate the carillon on Dominion Day, July 1. It is expected that wireless listeners, not only in Britain, but in the furthest outposts of Empire, will hear the in' augural chimes. The carillon commemorates the peace of 1918, and the sacrifices oi Canada in the war. It consists oi 53 bells, weighing just as many mounted in a huge steel framework, which in itself weights 22 tons. Maple Leaves An inscription on the largest bell, of 10 tons, is in French and English, 'h* round the top maple leaves have been moulded. This bell will be the .secona largest in Canada* and the « liro largest on the American Continent. The clock will control five of bells for striking the WestmihS chimes. On the fourth quarter is an inscription stating that its cas - ing was witnessed by Mr. Mackenzie King, Prime Minister of Canada, i November. At a private view of the bcliS ’ nt Kamiel Lefevre, principal carilloneur at Malines. gave a recu£ • Other recitals are to be given oy " le Chevalier Jef Denyn, principal the Belgian National Carillon ben