Our Scribble Picture Competition.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 252, 24 October 1934, Page 20

Our Scribble Picture Competition.

HOW THE PRIZES WERE AWARDED.

So popular was the scribble picture competition arranged in the "Star Twinkles" of October 13 that I am sure everyone will be eagerly looking forward to the results which are announced to-day.

considerably more that 35 were not included in the final judging. Don Hewson and Mervyn Allen must possess very sharp eyesight, for their entries of 35 objects were entirely correct, earning for them the first two places on the prize list. Noel Bollard and George and Doris Skinner each had 35 out of 36 objects correct. In accordance with our rule that no more than one cash prize may go to the same family for any one competition the last two competitors were bracketed for fourth place. Entries containing thirty-four correct objects out of original lists of thirty-five earned the next two places. Two girls and a boy were in the running for the two half-crowns that were still to be awarded, each having two mistakes in a 36-word contribution. Preference was given to the younger entrants.

Judging by some of the lists of objects supposed to have been hidden by the artist, one would say that the original picture was very much larger than four inches wide by five inches deep, for there were numbers of boys and girls who would have us believe that more than one hundred things were hidden away beneath the scribble. Our friend, the artist, however, carefully prepared a list of the objects drawn before he scribbled over them and they numbered exactly thirty-five.

The competition was, of course, an observation test, and so we felt that entries containing too many objects that did not appear should be disqualified, and consequently those whose original lists numbered very

Following are the lucky prize and certificate winners :-r—

The eight half-crown prizes were Avenue, Birkdale; Mervyn Allen, 1720, Noei Bollard, Prospect Road, Glen Edei Street, Waihi (bracketed); Graham 1 Loris Frascr, 47, Onslow Itoad, Epsom Grecnhithe, age 10; and Marion Sincl age 11.

awarded to Don newson, Polmtukawa , Great North Road, Avoiulale, age 14; n; George and Doris Skinner, Bradford Allison, Yates Road, Otahuhu, age 12; , age <>; Norma Hunter, Roland Road, , 11, Telford Avenue, Dominion Road,

Certificates of merit were awarded i Creenhalgh, Joan Waters, Jack Ellis. Gordon Woolley, Nancy Stanway, Doi Margaret Ridgley, Bruce Kilmistcr,

as follows:—BLUE: Roy Withy, Joyce j, Archie Wysocki, Margaret MeCord, maid Stanway, Lois Arnold. PINK: Joan Lcith, Keith Warwick, 'Phyllis

Murtagh, Alvecn Sokolich, Eileen Hunt, June Flett, Ruby Jones, Albert Osborne, E. Hayden, June Griffon, Phyllis Bcrgmann, Owen Hollo way, Maude Crane. GREEN: Sandra Mackie, Rinnie Crumpe, Norma Derbyshire, Norma Wall, Ngaere Cleave, Don Caradus, Hillary Butterworth, Enid Paris, Audrey Neville, Keith Nicholls, June Thomsen, Pearl Pullan, C'edric Sanders, Valerie Wall, June Carter. YELLOW: Audrey Matthews, Winnifrcd Harvey, Alison Black, Olga Masemann, Marion Young, June Mclntyre, Arthur French, • Jcannette Shepherd, June Upton Hughes, lona Stanawav, Leslie Banks, Geoff Williams, Roie Hill, Dorothy Easdown, Bob Harvey, Hubert Hare, Douglas Ilare, Currcn Clough, Audrey de Berry, Laura Bull, Ilalsey Pool, Lily Brogden, Ethel Green, Jean Mercer, Fay Fox, Thora Barnes, Mary Fletcher, Marion Myers, Ailsa Shepherd, John C'orfield, Shirley Kinsella, Marjory Thatcher, Cora Campbell, Lita Campbell, Audrey Otway, Pauline Chase, Edna Shields, R. Harder, Winifred Stanton. Antoinette Gillstrom, Neil Mackie, Carrick Mackie, Irene Pinkerton, Betty Carlaw, Jewel Paterson, Gladys Wilson, Connie Keesing, Alister Turner.