NEWS OF THE DAY
Innovation at Papakura Tlie use of loud-speakers is to he experimented with at Papakura camp in the training of soldiers of the Third Echelon. They will be used to comment upon demonstrations of training to be given by a model platoon, to be raised from the camp, and will first describe the whole of the particular phase and then give the chief points to be noted. Trade of the Port Receipts from ship charges, wharfage. harbour improvement rate, launch hire, and other working ileins for the seven months ended April 30 totalled £19,419, reported Mr. H. A. Barton, secretary-manager, at to-day's meeting of the Gisborne Harbour Board. The comparative figure for 1938-39 was £20.679 Expenditure for the same period was £46,663, as against £45,046 for the same period of the previous financial year. A decrease of 7020 tons of imports, and a decrease of 946 tons of exports, was mentioned in the report. Petrol and fuel oil now handled by land transport accounted for over 500 tons of the decrease in imports. Revenue receipts from all sources for the sevenmonths period totalled £31,605, this sum including £4564 in rent and £7622 in rates.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20257, 27 May 1940, Page 6
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