Skipper Francis brings home the bacon! Great success of North Island tour for Adult Cripples! Annual Report and Balance Sheet published shortly ! ! m irn I m m &C 5 When sentiment goes out of a nation, The blood of its people turns to water l — Skipperism, Free Lance. SKIPPER FRANCIS. Facing the icy blasts of last winter with a song in his heart and a pair of strong crutches, Skipper Francis visited the cities and towns of the North Island and succeeded in giving free trips to Aged and Adult Cripples totalling 1466 pilgrims. The Skipper collected all the , money to pay for motors, ferry, trains, and buses for this huge undertaking, and every penny was banked and controlled by the Trustees of the Skipper Francis Trust Fund, who are leading business men of Dunedin representing every class of the community. While the headquarters of this Fund are at Sussex House, Brighton, Dunedin, Skipper Francis will be taking his final collections outside the Vedic Cafe all next week.
AGLOW with iNERGYirnd FITNESS/ J.VS Attain perfect health 11M vitality by tha dally use of Seameal. Supplies tha correct amount of lodine essential to e balanced diet. Can be used In you> ordinary cooking. StAMSAL OH iITTT W. Gregg & Co., Ltd., Forth St., Dunedin. // m C 55 DOL OUR share towards victory :..WELD BROKEN ARTICLES Help our National War Economy by having all broken articles such as garden tools, farm Implements, mudguards, etc., electrically arc welded at your local engineering shop. Electric welding Is speedy, efficient, and blends the material together, making It stronger than before. KBi £7 new MANUFACTURERS OF ELECTRIC WELDING EQUIPMENT 291 Queen Street. Onehunge. Auckland
IN WAR-AS IN PEACETO.. OF ENGLAND* at the service of the Empire THE GENERAL ELECTRIC CO. LTD.. OF ENGLAND* . . . Wmm - ' *'■' '' '' ' ■j-'frn? - ' ' ' %I§yMf£Si xfc**'*' -y*A s Li 3Mm i m •>’v' m mm mi f'm sm FlectuUcatim sehemef G.E.C., Elcctrification Schemes have been applied to all industries, including: Aircraft Factories ; Chemical Works; Collieries; Food Factories; Gold Civil air transport is everywhere destined to leap ahead as soon Mines; iron, Steel and as the war ends. For the present, however, plans must be held Copper Works; Locomotive up because so many of the firms who would make the equip- and Ra,lwa y Carnage and ment for the factory, or the aircraft, or the aerodrome are fully Wagon Works; Motor Car engaged on war production. This is the case with G.E.C., Wor ) s ’ Shl ? 8 Sh !f* leaders in British electrical manufacture. Working in close p 3r s ’ c \ B> 1 collaboration with Government experts, the G.h.C. research and manufacturing organisations have made developments of the utmost scientific importance. ... When war priority ceases, however, the technical advances''made by the Company in all applications of electricity, including the important one of electronics, will be available to all in every part of the wojid for the carrying out of complete electrification schemes of any magnitude. S. <s.£?. - aiemys itt itte cjf elwtucal N.Z. REPRESENTATIVE; BRITISH GENERAL ELECTRIC CO. LTD. Wellington, Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin. ,
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25552, 3 June 1944, Page 4
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