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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21987, 23 June 1933, Page 11

Bow Bells were heard again in London on April 26, not in Cheapside, but in Croydon, where a large assembly met to see the recasting of the great tenor boll at a foundry. Before the ceremony the chimes of Dick Whittington were played for Mr Gordon Selfridgo, who in 1931 offered to defray the cost of restoring Bow Bells. The four and a-half tons of molten metal were released from the furnace and slowly poured like treacle into a giant cauldron. After the last drop had fallen, the rector of St. Mary-le-Bow, the Rev. S. G. Ponsonby, and the churchwardens, Alderman Sir Louis Newton, Mr Selfridge, the Master of the Grocers’ Company, the Mayor of Croydon, and a member of the Ancient Society of College Youths all flung silver coins into the cauldron for luck. Five of the Bow Bells were cracked, and these with three trebles have been recast and the whole peril corrected in tune. Sheep breeders in the San Julian area of Argentina have slaughtered and burned the carcasses of 60,000 sheep because they can find no market for them.