READERS’ QUERIES

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21224, 21 September 1940, Page 12

READERS’ QUERIES

••A.L.” —Oberamrw*rgau a village in Bavaria where a miracle play based on the Passion or Chri>t h presented by the inhabitants at intervals or 10 yearThe last performance, which was in 1930, attracted many visitors Horn ail parts of the world. The play Is acted ■wtth a quiet reverence and humility, be-ntting the sacred nature or the theme. —St. Paul’s Cathedral, which narrowly escaped damage in a recent air-raid, stands on the *ite or an ancient pagan temple that existed In London m the third century The present structure is the third that has been erected In this place. The second cathedral, n Hue Gothic building which possps-i-cj what was then the highest spire m the world, was totally destroyed by the Greet Fire of 1006. Sir Christopher Wren designed the present edifice in 1674 but it was not completed until ." years •main portico to the east enrf is stort its breadth ?82Tt and Its height 365 rt RefMirs were carried out in r*3o. when the roor was iu danger or collapsing. ••Air-raid a.”—There were 37 aeroplane and 5 4 Zeppelin raid- upon unfortified town> in England arid Scotland during the Great War. The 11: -1 aeroplane raid occurred on December 24. I'M, and the flrst Zeppelin r.iM on Januarv 9, 1915. The t<»tal number of nv pie killed in these raid- was l 7c and all’s were injur*- i. i ■■ u m rs- <•' any /Military importance waj> ihiiic’.cd by Uc Germans,