TEN DAYS' CARNIVAL.

Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 279, 23 November 1921, Page 7

TEN DAYS' CARNIVAL.

IN UPPER SYMONDS STREET. Shopping in Symonds Street at any time within the next few Jays i* likely t« prove quite an adventure, for the business folk of that locality have set out to make a merry carnival of business for a week, .starting to-morrow. Each day there will be a hidden treasure hunt, the concealed prize of the value of 20/ being located in one of the shop windows > and it will become the property of the eagle-eyed person who can "spot" it from outside the glass. This treasure hunt, which will be advertised, will shift from window to window daily, the cache bein£ known only to tiift president of the Symonda Street Businessmen's Association. Consequently a scrutiny each day or all the windows of all the shops is likely to become time well spent, quite apart from the fact that every Symonds Street shopkeeper will have special attractions in the way of bargains, plainly ticketed, displayed in the windows. Another shopping novelty that will be exploited is" the gift of a cabinet Fize photograph, well-mounted and finished, to each purchaser of goods to the value of £3 in any or all of the Symonds Street shops. Choppers who buy in several places in Symonds Street may accximulate the sale dockets and claim one photograph for such evidence of every sixty shillings spent in tl» locality" in carnival time. It is thus possible for the purchaser to get half-a-dozen photos, in addition to having obtained the benefit of the carnival week special values, in goods.

Two OTher novelties that are being featured for the week are the peregrinations anions thr> crowd in the street every afternoon of "Mrs. Sponduliks," who will rarrv on lie'- a <rift of £1 for the person who can identify her: and five nrizes for flic boys and enrls. who axe fible to produce, at t!ie end of the cr.mival tlie greatest number of sale flockpts of tlin Symonds Street shops for that period. Thi* series of "founts" has been «t cwisMprable exnense- by the Svmonds Street Businessmen's Assopintion to celebr«t» tho third year of its existence, and the association is satisfied that the e-cperienre by shonpero of carnival ve*k in Rvrnonds Street, whom rnnere ami valne of jroode fa combined with ready, edurteous .and businesslike attention t" customers, will convince rmrehasers that the ton of the street li*s rrown to be the best place in the city for business.