WIDE RANGE OF PRIZES

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29339, 19 October 1960, Page 19

WIDE RANGE OF PRIZES

Mystery Envelope Selection Eighty of the major prizes in next month’s mystery envelope sale by the Christchurch Junior Chamber for town hall funds total £lOOO in value and the value of prizes on the 200,000 vouchers so far covered is £25,000. With one week to go before lists are completed there are 100,000 vouchers still to be covered by orders. Junior Chamber members, compiling lists of vouchers, this week took out two lists of prizes which could turn up in £1 worth of 10 vouchers bought. This is what they found at random:— First selection:—A new suit, a model hart, a 13-day luxury cruise to Australia for two, half a ton of coal, some shoe polish, a slide projector, a linen handkerchief, and a new bicycle. Second selection:—A woman’s suit, a long week-end for two at a luxury hotel, a pair of pearl earrings, a canteen of cutlery, a cake of soap, a pint of motor oil. a coffee percolator, a new fireplace, an afternoon tea, and a house painting. “The gathering of offers for mystery envelopes must be completed by the end of this week, when the vouchers must go into print.” said one of the organisers yesterday. “More than 200,000 vouchers have been covered by business firms so far and we are confident that the tally will exceed the desired 300,000 before we finish.”

Firms regarded participation as a good public interest investment, he said.