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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 237, 3 October 1908, Page 3

'__*________ ________* _L-fj__^-_---ia T H' GROUP. Owing to the demand for Shares In a New j Group being continuous and iucrearing, and | Groups 7 to 15 practically full, tbe Director* have decided to invite Intending members! to give in their names at the Society's Of-! flee, Harbtttt Buildings, Victoria-st. East, for Shares in the 16th Group. If sufficient support is accorded in response to this Intimation, the New Groiip will be opened forthwith, and the day of allotment an- j nounced by advertisement in the local papers. By Order of the Board. .J. C. GRIERSON, Secretary. G AS. Q.AS. QAS. EXHIBITION TO-NIGHT, 7.30 to 9.30. At ] No 4, N.Z. EXPRESS CO.'S CENTRAL SAMPLE ROOMS, VICTORLA-QUADRANT. A new method of Manufacturing a Vapour Gas for Incandescent fig-ting, unexcelled for Cooking, etc. Can be attached to all existing pipes and fittings. Cost per 1000 feet, 3/. 45 Light Plant Installation complete on view. 83 JJENJAMIN AND pO., CARRIERS, RECEIVING AND FORWARDING AGENTS. Parcels Collected and Delivered, City and Suburbs, Twice Daily. Furniture Packed and Removed by Experts. Office, 37, FORT-ST. Telephone 1153. Sample Rooms, VICTORIA-ST. E. r X«lc___une 2185 T» U B L 1 C NOTICE. WILLIAM MORGAN, Saddler, Newmarket, begs to intimate to his numerous friends and customers that he is retiring from business, and takes this opportunity of thanking them for their liberal patronage for a great number of years, and that be will hold a Clearance Sale of his Assorted Stock of Saddlery until OiTOBER 31st next. No reasonable offers refused. /-"OMPETITIONS. /COMPETITIONS. TJNIQUE, TNTERESTTNG, E- ASY"JTO "pNTRANCE 17<EE. ■ ryiN a "pRtZE i W rx A P*" 552 ! NO GAMBLING. The Proprietors of the "WEBKLI GRAPHIC AND NEW ZEALAND MAIL" offer VALUABLE PRIZES in a series of COMPETITIONS, open to all In the Dominion. /COMPETITION VO. OT "HOW TO LIVE COMFORTABLY ON £200 A YEAR IN NEW ZEALAND." Everything is going up. Everyone limited in income to some such sum as we have suggested, complains that it is "impoiisible to make etms meet nowadays," and that to marry on snch a sum is absurd. Is It? Are not tne main difficulties artificial, created by a more ostentatious style of living generally? Granted rents are unduly high: al_o that tho cost of building practically prohibits the acquirement of "a home of one's own," are there not compensating reductions, advantages, which the parents of the rising generation were denied. These and similar questions arising from them arc for our readers to answer. Priies are offered for the best solution of the problem. First—A YEARS SUBSCRIPTION TO THE "GRAPHIC," Value £1. Second—FlVE SHILLINGS CASH. Set forth briefly how the money should be spent, so much for rent, .«o much for dress, education, holidays, emergencies, etc., etc. Allow for a family of say three children. Entries received np to OCTOBER 9th. Results announced OCTOBER 14_U. /COMPETITION VO. ->C "BEST BONA-FIDE STORY OF PRECOCIOUS OR WITTY CHILDREN." The children of the Dominion arc noted for their precocity and for th? quaintnesa of their sayings. Prizes arc offered for the best story of a witty saying, or funny question put" by children to each other or to grown-up people. First—A YEAR'S SUBSCRIPTION TO THE "GRAPHIC." Value XL Second—FlVE SHILLINGS CASH. Entries received OCTOBER 16th. Results announced OCTOBER 21st. /COMPETITION OQ "POR A NAGRAMS. In response to a suggestion from a correspondent, to whom our thanks are due, we have pleasure In announcing an Anagram I Competition. WHAT IS AN ANAGRAM ? An Anagram consists of the letters of a word used so as to form another word, or words. Its excellence ls determined by its appositeness —that is. in the new words made being in some way related to the meaning of the original word chosen. This can best be seen from the following examples, some of which are excellent: — CHOSEN WORD. ANAGRAM. Argumentatively At It! Ye vulgar mci Broken On kerb Consternation O Nance! 'tis torn Conversation O! sir. Rev. Canon Desperation A rope ends it Exasperating Spinagc extra! Exclamations Camel! It's an ox (The same letters transposed.) Followers Slower. F!o Important A Mr Tinpot Policeman's 'Elp's acomin' Three-hundredweight Truth! Ned weighed her United In duet Worthy w ho try AH the letters in the chosen word, and only those letters, must appear in the aua£ram. Competitors arc invited to send in anagrams formed from any word they like to choose from any part of the pages on which appear "The Week in Review" articles, up to the date of the closing of the competition. The word and the article and issue it is extracted from should be quoted in sending In the anagrams. First—A YEAR'S SUBSCRIPTION TO ! THE "GRAPHIC." Value £1. Second—FlVE SHILLINGS CASH. Entries close OCTOBER 23rd. Results OCTOBER 2Sth. It is stipulated as a condition of all Competitions that the decision of the Editor of the "Graphic" shall be final, and that no correspondence on the subject of the Competitions shall be allowed. Any of the Competition Papers may be published in the "Graphic." Contributors who may not wish their names published should sign initials or motto. The names of all Prize Winners will be published. /COMPETITIONS /*\PEN TO A LL. " YK7EE__LY /C BAPHIC AND YEW "\/TAIL" mHE "DEST TLLUSTRATED vy E E X L V TN rjVIE T\o-_l_ttO_-. Price, 6d per copy; £1 per annum (in advance). Of all Booksellers and' News Agen*.