Santa Claus Comes to Town

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 308, 29 December 1937, Page 14

Santa Claus Comes to Town

A Seasonable Competition

Christmas—-Jong rows of lighted shops, presents gay with holly and coloured ribbons, an eager, laughing crowd that fills the busy streets —truly, a memorable time! And what visions of mince pies, fat brown puddings and Christmas trees float before the minds of us all weeks before Christmas is actually here. With such excitement in the air, we simply had to have a Christmassy competition, and so a cut-out Santa Claus was arranged.

Cut-out competitions are so easy to do that even the smallest members of our clubs stand an equal chance with the older contestants of winning one of our fine prizes. These contests always result in so many neat entries that the judge has a difficult time to pick the twenty-four best.

It become! obvious then, that the prizes go to the competitors who have tried to make their entries a little different from the rest. Santa CUus must have a bag of toys and so some readers drew one by his side. Others placed him by the chimney place or added a touch of gaiety by surrounding him with holly leaves.

The following readers are awarded prizes for their good work:— R. Burton, Mount Eden, age 15, monoplane kitset. Aliaon Jecks, Epsom, age 15, torch. John McCosh, Manurewa, age 12, monoplane kitset. Noeline Trembath, Epsom, age 14, torch. Marie Moxham, Northcote, age 14, purse. " Yvonne Becroft, Mount Eden, age 15, box of candles. Venice Hemmingsen, Palmerston Nth., age 15, toothbrush compact. Betty Hunt, Papakura, age 13, torch. Evelyn Winks, Mount Eden, age 17, story book. John Whale, Onehunga, age 11, pocket knife. Colin de Luca, Mount Roskill, age 1 I, cricket ball. Ngaire Copeland, North Auckland, age 10, mouth organ. Lillian Hain, Point Chevalier, age 13, purse. Marion Sinel, Mount Eden, age 14, knife. Jean Barrowman, Onehunga, age 10, table tennis set. Ruby Davern, Mount Eden, age 14, gift toilet act. Bobby Leese, Whangarei, age 14, pocket knife. June Leese, Whangarei, age 15, stationery set. Jean Lindsay, Auckland, age 8, torch. David Adams, Mount Roskill, age 8, cricket ball. Bob MacLeod, Glenmore, age 10, crackers. Audrey Oliver, Grey Lynn, age 10, purse. Melva Hunchcombe, Devonport, age 9, crackers. Roy Hollings, Takanini, age 9, purse.

BLUE certificate* go to: Peggy Lea, Waitakere; S. Morgan, Ohakune; Joan Earle, Remuera; Malcolm Potts, Papatoetoe; Jean Sydenham, Ngatea. PINK: Joycelyn Hartley, Devonport; Josephine Lynch, Auckland; B. Pateraon, Papakura; Lois Fro»t, Epiom; Patty O'Brien, Heme Bay. GREEN: Irene Piesse, Ohakune; Bruce Pateraon, Papakura; Lenore Gerrard, Mount Roskill; Neville Rouston, Sandringham; Gwen Ellis, Mount Eden, YELLOW: Alec Mcßae, Thames; Don Pierce, Auckland; Valerie Maddren, Te Aroha; Edna Lewis, Northeote; Victor Hills, Auckland; Ernie Carlton, Paeroa; Jack Kendall, Milford; Wynne Gillespie, Mount Eden; Shirley Howard, Morningside.