A RIOT OF IMAGINATION.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 246, 17 October 1928, Page 20

A RIOT OF IMAGINATION.

BUDGET READERS FLY THE TASMAN.

JUNIOR WINNER'S SIMPLE TALE.

Dear Boys and Girls,— Squadron-Leader Kingsford Smith and his gallant comrades, Lieutenant Ulm and Messrs. McWilliam and Litchfield, have once more flown across the Tasman. It was a gallant flight, and when the Southern Cross touched Australian soil she had very few gallons of petrol - in>'her tanks. In their imagination last week's competitors returned with the giant monoplane to Australia, and although many prophesied storms, none thought the trip would prove so stormy as it turned out to be. • One competitor foresaw the possibility of the flyers running short of petrol, and in his account made them land in the Sydney Harbour. Eden Coombes, Taumarunui, undoubtedly submitted the best tale, hers beina well thought out and well told. Doris Brown, Fenton Street, Stratford; -N" «ent in quite an excellent contribution, and it seems a shame that she ended up by making her trans-Tasman flight nothing more than a dream. Amy Brown, 76, Ardmore Road, Ponsonby, aged 16, writes her account to her mother, making the tale plausible and interesting. Little Flora Soar, of Onehunga, won the remaining prize of 2/6, not because she sent in a glowing epistle of the flight, but because she wrote out her own its si mplicity' " OWn * W * y ' m * kin & * » tor T «mple yet perfect in On the whole the competition was not well done, and with the exception of the pnie-winners and the blue and pink certificate winners, the work was of a very poor standard. There was scope for a vivid description of a stormy passage, thunder, lightning, rain, hail and snow; adven ure, galore, yet only a few took advantage of it, the rest jurt !i«1 n fcyri«fca..t competition, prises being given for ,i > the best trick or catch submitted. J *I I |>■ i^ 1 Further particulars are given in (\TfiItLX Our Competition Corner."