RIVER CARNIVAL
Appeal For More Entries
An appeal to commercial and sporting oranisations to enter floats in the river carnival which is to be held on Saturday, November 25, has been made by the Canterbury Public Relations Officer (Mr E. G. Beckett) in a circular. The number of floats and decorated boats in the procession should be between 30 and 40 units but the entries from business and sporting concerns were disappointing, he said. The floats did not have to be expensive. One trade entry received had cost little more than £2 to prepare and another had been prepared by the entrant’s staff ta their spare time for less than £3O. Mr Beckett said. The display costing £2 would consist of arrangements of existing display material with pot plants, coloured lights and car head lamps illuminating feature products. One sporting organisation planned to have members demonstrating on a platform mounted on the rear of a launch, said Mr Beckett -
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29674, 18 November 1961, Page 14
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