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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 124, 16 November 1911, Page 4

It was Mr. Keir Ifanlie, we believe, who violently denounced the expenditure of a large sum of money on n glittering Indian Dnrliar (to which the late Kin" Edward was to go), and who also pro° tested with some noise at the pomp and expensive spectacle at that great Kino's funeral. It was Mr. 11. J. H. Okey, we believe, who said the democratic" New Znalandcr would not pay for a lot of gold-laced ollicer.s in the Territorials. ' '' ' ' dug aware that, , in-chased by the cers themselves, tint that is not the point. The King and Queen are goin" to Tmliit fo a durbar. Lord Kitchener has landed in Egypt, and the late King's brother has taken up his residence "as Governor-General of Canada. One man here and there may believe that judges should go wigless and policemen wear dungarees and singlets, soldiers should be clothed in saddle-tweed and sailors in sacking, but the average person knows I hat. gaud ami pomp and circumstances is ,|,.ar to all people—and counts. Conceive, for instance, Kim; George in a blue serge suit ami a "hard" knocker" getting crowned in that land of splendor. India! The British Govcnmient knows so well what it is about that it makes the King take a special crown with him because the millions of his subjects in India expect a. display befitting the crowning of the earth's greatest, monarch. Conceive the people of Canada allowing the Duke of Connaught fa Hired in a shooting jacket and golf stockings) stealing up to Government House by the back lanes. ' We are persuaded by shrewd statesmen that in sacking, bu IvIIOWS that, .r:, befitting t greatest, m golf stocki inenl Nous ....< office because 1m knows the power of spectacle on the common mind, for power and authority is mainly rcpresent- '"' w "'" n "'- rp, '~ -'-l.iral and the ishable in a swimming bath. The King and the costermonger are not dissimilar in appearance—except when hidden from view in the benevolence of clothes.