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Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23080, 24 July 1940, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS. Your Entertainment Guide: CHRISTCHURCH CINEMAS. LTD.. Present at The REGENT TO-DAY: 2.15 and 8 P.M. I Melro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s Delightful Entertainment ... “ NINOTCHKA ” With Greta Garbo Mclvyn Douglas RESERVES D.I.C. or REGENT, 34-616. (Recommended by Censor for Adults.! MAJESTIC To-day at 2.15 and 8 p.m. and AGAIN NEXT WEEK ! Groucho Chico Harpo MARX BROTHERS “AT THE CIRCUS” With Florence Rice and Kenny Baker. (Approved for Universal Exhibition.) Reserves D.I.C. or Majestic, 33-537. ’ T 1 YOU , Last Days; 2.15 and 8 p.m. “ANOTHER THIN MAN” WILLIAM POWELL MYRNA LOY (Recommended by Censor for Adults.) FRIDAY ! 2.15 —5 8 P.M. : “MERRILY WE LIVE” CONSTANCE BENNETT BRIAN AHERNE BILLIE BURKE ALAN MOWBRAY Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures. Reserves D.I.C. or TIVOLI, 32-810. (Approved for Universal Exhibition.) | GRAND James Newill Carol Hughes In the Action-packed Drama of the Great North Woods! ' ‘Renfrew of the Royal Mounted' , And AKIM TAMIROFF i GAIL PATRICK-ANN A MAY WONG In the Thrilling Gangster Drama “DANGEROUS TO KNOW” (Recommended by Censor for Adults.) 1 I ST. JAMES’ sS 2 P.M. Twice Daily I 7 P.M. ROBERT MONTGOMERY Rosalind Russell-Dame May Whitty in “NIGHT MUST FALL” (Recommended by Censor for Adults.) And Dick Powell Priscilla Lane Pat O’Brien and Ann Sheridan In “ Cowboy From Brooklyn ” (Approved for Universal Exhibition.) RESERVES AT D.I.C. or Theatre, 35-820 football. INTER-SCHOOL RUGBY. rpHE ANNUAL MATCH between Christchurch BOYS’ HIGH SCHOOL AND WAITAKI BOYS’ HIGH SCHOOL will be held THIS AFTERNOON AT RUGBY PARK AT 2.30 p.m. Second Fifteens meet at 1.15 p.m. All Old Boys and Friends invited to be present. W. A. HADLEE, Sec., High School Old Boys’ Assn. X 2016 COUNTY COUNCILS. AMURI JOUNTY COUNCIL. CULVERDEN TOWNSHIP WATER RACE DISTRICT. VTOTICE is hereby given that at a Special Meeting of the Amur! County Council held on the 7th day of June, 1940, a resolution was passed constituting the Culverden Township Water Race District. The said resolution will be submitted for confirmation at a meeting of the Council on the 2nd day of August, 1940. A full copy of the resolution, schedule of proposed boundaries and map showing the proposed water races is open for inspection during office hours until the first day of August. 1940. H. M. SEARLE, 5943 County Clerk. MOTOR TRADES ART UNION. FOR THE CANTERBURY PATRIOTIC FUNDS. ONLY THREE MORE DAYS ONLY THREE MORE DAYS ONLY THREE MORE DAYS Definitely CLOSING FRIDAY Next. Definitely CLOSING FRIDAY Next. Definitely CLOSING FRIDAY Next. MOTOR TRADE ART UNION ART UNION ART UNION For the Canterbury Patriotic Funds. For the Canterbury Patriotic Funds. SEVEN PRIZES. First—FOßD 10 h.p. Four-door Saloon. Second —MORRIS 8 Saloon. Third—ROLLS Dual-wave Radio Set. Fourth —Set of Goodrich Car Tyres. Fifth and Sixth—Raleigh Lady’s or Gent’s Cycle. Seventh—Car Fog Lamp. TICKETS: SIXPENCE. * CLOSING FRIDAY. CLOSING FRIDAY. STOP PRESS ♦ HITLER ACCEPTS CHALLENGE NEW YORK. July 23. Reports from Berlin state that Herr Hitler accepts the challenge thrown down by Britain, as implied in Lord Halifax’s speeah. “It is uar to the hitter end, said a Nazi spokesman. “We cannot withhold the blitzkrieg any longer.” BRITAIN’S BUDGET The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir Kingsley Wood) announced further increases in war ’ expenditure. He said the standard rate of income tax would be increased by Is to 8s 6d in the £. There would be an extra tax o! Id a pint on beer and lid an ounce on tobacco. The surtax on incomes over £2OOO would be increased from Is 3d to 2s in the £.