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The Gisborne Photo News

 

57

Here And There

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An unusual feature of the Poverty Bay Power Board's building in Peel Street, is this clock which is shown to us by Mrs L. J. Shields of the sales department. Operating on 22 1½volt batteries this master clock controls 19 slave clocks in the building. This means that after a possible power failure 19 clocks don't have to be adjusted and restarted.

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What would be both a decorative and practical addition to the holiday scene in Rotorua is the proposal to introduce meter maids in this guise. Based on the Surfers' Paradise bikini girls who 'feed' the meters for overparked visitors the idea is meeting with enthusiastic approval from all quarters. Posing in the proposed costume is Jocelyn Carroll, daughter of Mr and Mrs J. Carroll, Manutuke, who is a shorthand typist in the Social Security Dept., in Rotorua.

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Some of the L.D.S. Relief Society's members who are about to depart by bus for the convention which was held in Palmerston North over the Queen's Birthday weekend. From left they are Mesdames H. McGhee, M. Nepia, P. Ngaira, B. Mohi, L. Whakataka, L. Kuhuroa, K. Maraki, D. Herivell and daughter Nellwyn, M. Poulsen, C. Dewes and I. Hindmarsh. Their driver is Tony Bernstein.