NEWS OF THE DAY

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22917, 8 April 1949, Page 4

NEWS OF THE DAY

£25,000 Donation to Centennial Fund. A contribution to the Canterbury centennial funds of £25,000 subject to the expenditure being made legal, has been approved by the Christchurch City Council. The payment of £SOOO towards the funds for the Canterbury centennial air race was also provisionally approved.

Another Cargo of Salvaged Steel. Another load of salvaged steel similar to that taken to Wellington recently from New Guinea by the Wairata will arrive in Wellington at the end of the •week from the New Hebrides in the Melva. The survey of the Awahau has about been completed and she will shortly be commissioned to bring further steel to New Zealand. Another ship is also to be used in the trade. Refrigerators at £55.

Information that refrigerators , to sell at about £55, will be built for State houses was contained m an application by an engineering firm tor extensions to their factory at Christchurch to the town planning committee of the City Council. The firm is building refrigeration compressors. The building of refrigerators for State houses has been planned for two years, wrote the firm, and the Customs Department had now granted import licenses of more than £65,000 for plastic materials for the cabinet liners. Stainer’s Crucifixion

The first engagement oi the Gisborne RS A. Male-Voice Choir of the new season will be the Presentation of Stainer’s “Crucifixion at the Methodist Church, Bright street, on Monday evenin" This composition is probably most popular of all those suitable for production in a small auditorium and has some excellent solo parts which, in the case of Monday’s production will be taken by Messrs. Alan Gardiner and K. J. Sloan. The proceeds of the production will be devoted to mission-field activities in the Pacific area. National Savings - A highlight without precedent in the progress of the national savings movement occurred on the first day of the new financial year when seven towns reached their annual objective. At Kaponga, W’aikanae, Nightcaps and Orepuki targets were achieved immediately the post offices opened at 9 a.m. and these offices were closely followed by Glen Orua, Kimbolton and Weraroa. In their enthusiasm to record first successes for their towns, the postmasters at these places had sdught investments in advance and arranged for lodgments to be made promptly on the commencing day.