NATIONAL SAVINGS
FLAG COMPETITION
INVERCARGILL/ SUCCESS The outstanding item in connection with the National Savings Flag Competition during the fourteenth fortnightly period of the contest was the attainment of !00 per cent success at three offices in the Invercargill district, namely Edendale, Riverton and Waikaka. At each of these offices the number of depositors now equals the total population. Edendale, as the holder, retaios the privilege of flying the flag for the ensuing fortnight.
No alteration in the positions of the leading towns in other districts is disclosed, but increased percentages are recorded in each case for all districts. The leading towns are as follows:—Auckland district, Ruawai; Blenheim district, Picton; Christchurch district, Waiau; Dunedin district, Owaka; Gisborne district, Te Araroa; Greymouth district, Hokitika; Hamilton district, Rotorua; Invercargill district, Edendale, Riverton and Waikaka; Napier district, Porangahau; Nelson district, Murchison; New Plymouth district, Strat-
jford; Oamaru district, Kurow; Paljmerston North district. Pongaroa; Thames district, Thames; Timaru district, Geraldine; Wanganui district. Ohakune Junction: Wellington district. Featherston; Westport district, Westport. For the third stage of the competition, which commenced on August 8, the contest is restricted to towns with a population of 1000 or more.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 192, 15 August 1941, Page 8
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