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This new Diesel shunting engine at Gisbone develops 204 H.P. and can pull up to 1300 tons. The engine, shown, at work near the Freezing Works, shows big savings in labour and fuel costs.

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High jumps are no bother to this lioness with the Cole Bros.circus. A crack of the trainer's whip sends her up the side of the cage and over.

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It's a worrying business, this basketball. Now, will that girl throw a goal, or won 't she? (She did!)

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The school patrol system on Gladstone Road and other busy thoroughfares is a blessing to anxious parents, who know that, as here, their children will cross the street in safety.

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The Gisborne Hard of Hearing League's new rooms in Palmerston Road were opened recently. The completion of the building as a notable occasion, in that it constituted the first such enterprise in New Zealand, and was achieved entirely without outside resources.

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A novel "hat trick" was secured by these children of Mr and Mrs J. Pickett, Stout Street. From left, Tony, who won the High School junior swimming championship; Lesley, who won the junior swimming and diving championships at St. Mary's School; and Mark, who won the senior swimming title at the Intermediate School.