NATIONAL SAVINGS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 90, 17 April 1941, Page 16

NATIONAL SAVINGS.

FLAG COMPETITION.

THREE TOWNSHIPS EQUAL.

The sixth fortnightly period of the National Savings "Flag Competition"' shows no change in regard to the leading towns, although in all eases the offices concerned report increased percentages. For Dominion leadership pride of place is shared equally between Te Anga, in the Hamilton district; Weber, in the Palmerston North district; and Alfredton, in the Wellington district, each of which holds the splendid record of 100 per cent success, the number of national savings depositors equalling in number the local population.

Wailcaka, in the Invercargill district, is next with 80.7 per cent depositors to the populatipn. The leading towns are:—Auckland district, Whitford; Blenheim district, Ward; Christchurcli district, Waiau; Dunedin district, Owaka; Gisborne district, Te Araroa; Greymouth district, Ross; Hamilton district, Te Anga; Invercargill district, Waikaka; Napier district, Porangahau; Nelson district, Murchjson; New Plymouth district, Awakino; Oamaru district, Kurow; Palmerston North district, Weber; Thames district, Whakatane; Timaru district, Geraldine; Wanganui district, Waitotara; Wellington district, Alfredton; Westport district, Westport.

With three offices having attained 100 per cent success, the first stage of the contest ia regarded as completed. For the second stage (of which the first fortnightly period will end on April 23) the "Flag" competition will be restricted to towns with a population of 500 or more.