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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21995, 3 July 1933, Page 3

The best Coal procurable—Kaitangata has been further reduced in price.—Advt. Bow Bells wefre heard again in London on April 20, not in Cheapside, but in Croydon, where a large assembly met to see the recasting of the great tenor bell at a foundry. Before the ceremony the chimes of Dick Whittington wore played for Mr Gordon Selfridge, who in 1931 offered to defray the cost of restoring Bow Bells. The four and a-half tone 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 wore cracked, and these with three trebles have been recast and the whole peal corrected in tunc.