BRITAIN’S BOOM DEFENCE SERVICE has the vital task of safeguarding the entrance to supply ports. Its members fix and maintain the nets of steel cable guarding the harbour mouths against marauding submarines, torpedoes of fast surface craft. These nets are suspended from lines of spherical floats on the surface, and are weighted on the sea-bed with iron or concrete sinkers.
DANCE BAND VOCALIST Carol Carr who is heard singing with Jack ‘Payne’s Band on the British Broadcasting Corporation’s overseas short wave service. Carol is rapidly coming into the front rank of dance band vocalists, although singing with Jack Payne’s Band is her. first professional engagement. Band Leader Payne regards her as his special protege, and signed her up for a long term contract immediately after she left school.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3299, 11 August 1943, Page 6
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128BRITAIN’S BOOM DEFENCE SERVICE has the vital task of safeguarding the entrance to supply ports. Its members fix and maintain the nets of steel cable guarding the harbour mouths against marauding submarines, torpedoes of fast surface craft. These nets are suspended from lines of spherical floats on the surface, and are weighted on the sea-bed with iron or concrete sinkers. DANCE BAND VOCALIST Carol Carr who is heard singing with Jack ‘Payne’s Band on the British Broadcasting Corporation’s overseas short wave service. Carol is rapidly coming into the front rank of dance band vocalists, although singing with Jack Payne’s Band is her. first professional engagement. Band Leader Payne regards her as his special protege, and signed her up for a long term contract immediately after she left school. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3299, 11 August 1943, Page 6
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