FOODSTUFFS SUPPLIED

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 55, 2 September 1944, Page 9

FOODSTUFFS SUPPLIED

EFFORT "MAGNIFICENT"

TO .w,-W e messaee trom Washington published on August 29 gave certain figures 'as reported, by Mr. Crowley Administrator of the Foreign Economic .Administration" on foodstuffs supplied to the Allies by New Zealand under reciprocal lend-lease. vi eL IK m. was presumably based on cabled advice furnished by the United States Lend-lease Mission to New Zealand, but, possibly owing to transmission errors, the published figures reveal a number of discrepancies, the chief being that the total • value of the lars, as reported. Furthermore, the inclusive date was to March 31, 1944 ?ot May 31; and the total weight was 459,090,0001b5, not 456,939,1501b5. ~ Official figures made available to The Post," show also several corrections in the details of supplies. These were: Canned meat, 42,820,0001bs (not 42,000,000); milk and cream, 14,670,000 lbs (not 14,667,000); other dairy pro-, ducts, 8,560,0001bs (not 8,000,000); other ! foodstuffs, 41,770,0001bs (not 41,000,----000). The remaining published figures were correctly reported. In making the correct figures available it was observed "that the New Zealand public should know the* correct facts regarding. your Dominion's magnificent and timely contribution to the Allied cause, and not have the total figure appear to be 20,000,000 dollars less than it actually was." WELLINGTON HARMONIC SOCIETY. In the presence of their Excellencies the Governor-General and Lady Newall, on Tuesday, September 12, In the Concert Chamber of the Town Hall, the Wellington Harmonic Society, with which Is associated the Welling-1 ton Apollo Singers, will present the second! concert of the 1944 season, under the conduc- i torship of Mr. H. Temple White. The choir, which has been strengthened in the male voice sections, will present a bright, well-varied programme. Always on the lookout for new performers and believing in encouraging young musicians, the society has secured the services of Gertrude Ardagh, soprano, of Christchurch, who Is coming up to Wellington specially to sing at this concert. She was the winner of the Dunedin Melba elimination contest, and nas been very successful at competitions in Christchurch. The assisting instrumentalist is Jocelyn Walker, one of Wellington's most talented young pianists. Mr. Harold Whittle will be the accompanist. The box plan will be at Begg's from September 7.

CELEBRITY CONCERT.

A celebrity concert of great significance will take place in the Wellington Town Hall on September 12. It will be a night of opera, with music the people love, presented by Yvonne Webb-Jones, operatic soprano, and Nino Marotta, grand opera bass-baritone. They will be assisted by a salon orchestra of a "minimum of 20 instrumentalists under the baton of Leon de Mauny. Ormi Keid will be the accompanist. A specially-selected programme of classical arias from the operas of Verdi, Puccini,- Rossini, Moussorgsky, Wagner, Handel, also English ballads and negro spirituals, will no doubt attract many music-lovers. Nino Marotta has a repertoire of 60 operas; Yvonne .Webb-Jones's repertoire consists of nearly 20. They have sung all over Europe, in Cairo, Tunis, on tho American Continent, and in Australia. This concert will be under the management of Natau Scheinwald.