STREET CARNIVAL

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20275, 17 June 1940, Page 5

STREET CARNIVAL

CLOCK BLOCK EFFORT FIXTURE FOR FRIDAY SICK AND WOUNDED FUND By the combined efforts of all shopkeepers and business places in the town clock block a special gala night the total proceeds of which will be for the sick and wounded soldiers' fund, wili be promoted on Friday, June 21. Permission has been granted by the Gisborne Borough Council to prohibit all traffic between Grey and Derby streets in Gladstone road on Friday night at 7 o’clock, when a procession of concert parties after parading from Derby street to the Post Office will return to the clock tower and take up a position between the tower and Derby street. Concert parties, raffles, auctions and several novelty competitions will be the order of the night, and radio station 2ZJ will broadcast the proceedings. The radio station management has placed the whole of its resources in the hands of the carnival committee, and will reproduce raffles and auctions to enable listeners in countv areas to ioin in the fun of the night Window-Spotting Competition Of great interest to all will be the inauguration of a window-spotting competition, commencing at !) n.m. on Friday. No entry ice will be charged for this competition, and a valuable prize will be allotted to the person submitting the highest total of correct spots. The competition will embrace all traders’ premises in the Town Clock block, commencing from Ward’s Transport Limited in Grey Street and terminating at the Red Bus Service, on the south-western side of the block, and commencing from Bianell and Holmes’ and terminating at the Derby Street Tyre Station, on the north-easi side of the block. All traders and business houses in (he block have donated either cash or goods to be raffled or auctioned, and many country residents have promised their support to the committee by donating farm produce for disposal. Arrangements have been made whereby Ward’s Transport, Limited, the Red Bus Service Limited, East Coast Motors, Limited, Duco Motoi Services, Limited, Musgravc’s Services Limited and Grey's buses will transport to Gisborne free of charge any donations of goods or produce for the campaign. All such donations should be addressed to Town Clock Block Campaign, Gisborne, and it is anticipated I hat the goods and produce drive over the routes of the service, transport and bus companies will be fully availed of by the many country supporters. The organising and staffing arrangements of the fixture will be under the control of a strong committee of the associated business people of the block and all receipts and funds will be in the hands of the sick and wounded fund committee.