Competition Prize List

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 270, 13 November 1937, Page 3 (Supplement)

Competition Prize List

Here is the fine list of prizes from which you may select your

Two-cell Focusing Torches, Attractive Boxed Manicure Sets (in all shades, containing scissors, file, polisher and mirror). Bos or Christmas Crackers (each of which contains a hat or cap and toys, etc.). Delightful Portrait of the Little Princesses, Elizabeth and Margaret Rose (in cellophane frame). Charming Study of Their Majesties the King and Queen (in cellophane), Box of Six Spiral Art Candles (in assorted shades). Boy's Purse (in brown leather, two compartments), Sheffield Stainless Steel White-handled Fruit and Pocket Knives, Strong Two-blade Sheffield Stainless Steel Knives, Attractive Coloured Patterned Propelling Pencils (extra long leads). Attractive Patterned Self-filling Fountain Pens (in all shades). Cricket Balls, Special Light Skipping Ropes (in rubber or coloured plaited cord). Illustrated 64-Page Stamp Album, Compact Pocket Toothbrush (just the thing for Christmas campers), Table Tennis Sets, Large Triangular Boxes of Plasticine (in assorted colours). Special R.O.G. Monoplane Kitset, Girls' Soft Leather Purses (with three compartments, including zipped centres). Gift Boxes of Flower-perfumed Soap, Boomerang Mouth Organs, Box

of 100 Marbles in Ten Assorted Colours.

worried most of the time for he was judge, starter and general overseer; Mr. Geoff. Perkins seemed to spend most of his time weighing models and issuing petrol allowances; Mr. and Mrs. Clark were kept very busy with their stop watches; Messrs. Pattle, Mahony and Stan Andrews, of the Pukekohe committee, were to be seen buzzing round helping generally; Mr. Macdonald was quite verbose on the loudspeaker; contestants generally were distributed round the saddling paddock and great volumes of staccato notes were heard in all directions as this motor after that one started up in the middle of an 'admiring audience. The main crowd was roped off and each starter in turn would go out to the starting point and only the timekeepers and officials allowed near them, and I might mention these officials kept on the far side of the starter so that the crowd always got a good view. This is a point other clubs might watch when conducting such events, for it is hardly fair to keep the paying guests back and then block out their vision with crowds of officials and friends.

• During the afternoon Messrs. Eade and Cross lost their models in the far distance, the model being last seen heading for the Razorbacks. These