A GREAT BOOST

Hokitika Guardian, 7 November 1930, Page 3

A GREAT BOOST

A PROPOSED BANQUET.

ELABORATE ARRANGEMENTS

ißy Telegraph—press Association).

WELLINGTON, November 7

Perhaps one of the largest banquets ever attempted is to lie-given next Saturday in Pennsylvania.

Details received by cable give information that President Hoover will be the speaker when the firm of Heinz dedicate their Theatre and recreational building to the use of their employees and give an international radio banquet, commemorating sixtyone years of friendly relations with their employees. Over five hundred leading men of the United States will attend the function. A most interesting point is the fact , that in all parts of the world, all of Heinz’s branches will hold banquets to coincide with the main event.

Jn New Zealand this will be held at 11.30 a.m. on Sunday. The same menu will be served the world over and arrangements have been made that the speeches and concert he broadcast to all parts of the world. Jn all, over one hundred banquets will he held at which something like eleven thousand employees will attend. While the functions are timed to start a 6.30 p.m. on Saturday night Pittsburg time, the broadcast will not commence until 8 o’clock, which time is equivalent of 1 o’clock on Sunday afternoon, New Zealand daylight saving time.

Short wave enthusiasts will have a wonderful opportunity of picking up a programme from any of the main American stations or from England, Spam, Canada, South Africa or Australia;

Cabled descriptions of the building which has been constructed in marble and borize tile art work, state that it is three hundred and fifty feet long one hundred feet m breadth and is only one of twent -six Heinz buildings in Pittsburg. Half of the new building is devoted to a theatre, accommodating more than three thousand ami is equipped with the amplyfying sytem, air cooling and heating equipment, talking picture apparatus, huge pipe organ with four manuals and one hundred stops and other general theatrical devices. In the other half there- arc four employee restaurants seating thirtyfive hundred, also rooms for recreational and educational activities.

During the ceremony the employees are to unveil a bronze tablet inscribed “This tablet is placed here by employees of H. J. Heinz Company, to mark sixty-one years of continuous friendly relations and to record their appreciation of this auditorium and service building dedicated to r their use, mm fort and happiness.” Speeches will be made by such prominent men as President Hoover, Sir Henry Thornton, head of the Canadian National Railways, Charles Nagle, secretary of Commerce and Labour in Tafts Cabinet anil Howard Heinz, and these, together with solos by grand opera stars and selections on the great- pipe organ will lie broadcast from all stations including tbe short wave stations of Pittsburg and Oakland, California.