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Otago Witness, Issue 4031, 16 June 1931, Page 72

The Wellington carillon of 49 bells, manufactured by Gillett and Johnston, Ltd., at Croydon, England, has been the subject of a special article in the Scientific American, which describes the founding of those bells. The largest carillon is that erected to the memory of Laura Spelman Rockefeller in New York. This and the carillon at Riverside Church, New York, were both cast at the Croydon works.

The desperate condition of affairs in Soviet Russia at present is disclosed in a letter received by a Gisborne resident from a friend in Riga, Latvia. The correspondent tells of the experience of a group of believers (Christians), and declares that thousands of others are in the same distress. They were holding a prayer meeting in secret, the letter explains, when they were found out and taken by surprise. One of the Godless exclaimed to a recent convert: “Ah, comrade, you are also here? ” He replied: “I am no more your comrade, jind I am a disciple., of Jesus Christ,” "He was taken away and they have never seen him since. A friend, however, visifed him in prison'. Some days later when friends took food to him in prison they found he was gone™ Siberia —to exile.