AMUSEMENTS | REGENT | 2 p.m. TWICE DAILY 8 p.m. Shoppers’ Session Fridays, 5 p.m. MARK TWAIN’S ... Inimitable Story . . . More Thrilling and More Humorous Than Ever! BING CROSBY (, Everybody’s Favourite Star In Paramount’s Technicolour Special “A Yankee in King Arthur’s Court” „ With RHONDA FLEMING William Bendix Sir Cedric Hardwicke You’ll thrill as Bing and Rhonda Sing Popular New Songs RESERVES D.I.C. or REGENT, 34-616 (Approved for Universal Exhibition.) | TIVOLI | 2 p.m. NOW SHOWING 8 p.m. Shoppers’ Session Friday, 5 p.m. EDMUND GWENN DONALD CRISP And LASSIE in “HILLS OF HOME” In Technicolour (Approved fof Universal Exhibition.) Friday Next! LAUGHTER I THRILLS I EXCITEMENT ! All sorts of bodies . . . beautiful . . . missing . . . even busybodies . . in “THE CORPSE CAME C.O.D. ’ GEORGE BRENT JOAN BLONDELL ADELE JERGE'NS LESLIE BROOKS Box Plans at D.I.C. Theatre ’Phone 31-810. (Recommended by Censor for Adults.) If! RA M Now Showing, Non-1 vJ 11 zA IN JU stop from 11 a.m. | ADVENTURE AND THRILLS! “THE CRIMSON KEY” Kent Taylor Doris Dowling AND: Intrigue in the City of Mystery! “ T-E-H-E-R-A-N ” Derek Farr Marta Labarr (Both Rec. by Censor for Adults.) Also Ep. 5 of "THE PHANTOM” |METRO THEATRE) 7.15 P.M. TO-NIGHT 7.15 P.M. Romance and Drama set in the BreathTaking Beauty of the Swiss Alps ! Madeleine Carroll lAN HUNTER MICHAEL RENNIE In “WHITE CRADLE INN” “WHITE CRADLE INN” (Recommended by Censor for Adults.) Associate Attraction PHILIP REED HILLARY BROOKE In the Exciting Drama of a Girl Reporter who CoverST Crime by Day and Commits it by Night I “Big Town After Dark” “Big Town After Dark” (Approved lor Universal Exhibition.) Also—FOX AUSTRALASIAN NEWS. RESERVES at THEATRE, 'Phone 36-400. The Colour Film that won the First Award at the International Cinema Festival in Cannes, France. 1946. “THE STONE FLOWER” A Russian Legend presented in a Feast of Colour and Song. Appraised by the “N.Z. Listener” as “Technically little short of perfection . . . stirs the imagination as the scenes of other films seldom do.” PRIVATE SCREENING PLAZA THEATRE SUNDAY. MAY 39, 8 P.M. Invitations procurable at Co-op Book Shop, Regent street. 1 PUBLIC NOTICES SIGHTSEEING TOURS. CITY and SUBURBAN TOUR of 2 hours §? , DAILY at 10 a.m. and travels the City’s most beautiful and interesting areas. NORTHERN and SOUTHERN Summit Road Tours of 2J hours leave Cathedral square DAILY at 2 p.m. See the glorious views of sea, plain, and mountain from the PORT HILLS. RESERVATIONS NOT NECESSARY. MIDLAND MOTORWAYS SERVICES LIMITED. 8318 birthday WEEK-END. KING S BIRTHDAY WEEK-END. AT HERMITAGE, MT. COOK. Depart Christchurch 7.45 a.m. Sat.. 4tn June. Return Christchurch 6 p.m. Wed. Bth June. COST ONLY £B/12/6. £B/12/6. INCLUDES ACCOMMODATION IN MAIN BUILDING. Cruiser Coach transport from Christchurch, and Ball Hut trip. Booking arrangements with:— N.Z. TRAVEL SERVICE, 92 Gloucester st., Christchurch. ’Phones 38-635, 35-918. 8743 GROUP TRAVEL. GROUP TO MARLBOROUGH SOUNDS, NELSON and WESTPORT via EAST COAST, RETURNING via LEWIS PASS. DEPARTING 11th JUNE. RETURNING 20th JUNE. AT THE LOW COST OF £l5/-/- £ 15/-/-which includes transport and accommodation. ONLY LIMITED NUMBER VACANCIES. Bookings and Detailed Itineraries from N.Z. TRAVEL SERVICE, 92 Gloucester street. ’Phone 38-635. 8298 WHITE AIR (FIJI) TOURS. THREE weeks’ glorious holiday in Fascinating Fiji. Land of Eternal Sunshine. Only 5 hours from Auckland in giant trans-Pacific Skyliners. Fiist-class hotels. Modern-transport. Small sociable parties. Ample time for rest and relaxation. Superb scenery. Coral beaches. Shady palms. Excellent swimming, Exotic flowers. Pineapple plantations. The great Emperor and Loloma goldmines. Golf, Tennis, Bowls, Fishing This is a real holiday. The holiday you have dreamed about. All-inclusive cost £llO. Weekly departure, May 10, 17, 24 31, etc. Send for illustrated literature. Book through N.Z. Travel Service. Leading Travel Agents, or direct with WHITES AVIATION. LTD., "The Air Travel Specialists,” Hereford Court. Christchurch. ’Phone 34-999. P.O Box 339. 4450 (Extract from N.Z. Gazette No. 28, 12th May, 1949, page 1001.) Land Taken for a Public School in Block XI, Christchurch Survey District. [L.S.] B. C. FREYBERG, GovernorGeneral. A PROCLAMATION. PURSUANT to the Public Works Act, 1928, I, Lieutenant-General Sir Bernard Cyril Freyberg, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim and declare that the land described in the Schedule hereto is hereby taken for a public school, and shall vest in the Education Board of the District of Canterbury as from the date hereinafter mentioned; and I do also declare that this Proclamation shall take effect on and after the sixteenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and fortynine. SCHEDULE. Approximate area of the piece of land taken: 7 acres. Being Lots 6,7, and 8. D.P. 1185, part of Rural Section 345 A. Situated in Block XI. Christchurch Survey District (Canterbury R.D.). (S.O 7966.) In the Canterbury Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 128704, deposited in the office of the Minister of Works at Wellington, and thereon edged red. Given under the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, and issued under the Seal of that Dominion, this sth day of May. 1949. F. JONES, For the Minister of Works. GOD SAVE THE KING! (P.W.31/1218.) 8714
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25812, 25 May 1949, Page 1
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