GIRL WINS PRIZE

Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32666, 23 July 1971, Page 19

GIRL WINS PRIZE

A girl at a Christchurch primary school who won a

[major prize for herself and 'her school in a national competition was this week presented with her prize by a representative of the firm running the competition. Nine-year-old Tracey Hagger, of the Wairakei School. Bryndwr, won $2OO for the school’s library and a year’s pocket-money for herself—ss2 —in the ‘‘great adventure” contest run by Smith and Nephew, Ltd. The company’s sales manager (Mr G. M. Kinnell) made the presentation at the school. Tracey Hagger was one of four children who won such prizes in the contest—the others were all from North Island schools. Contestants had to match “escape routes” (a lifeboat, a submarine, a stout tree) to "adventure situations” (a shipwreck, an erupting volcano, a charging rhinoceros), write why they felt their school library should get the $2OO, and give the total length of sticking plaster in a packet of the sponsoring firm’s product. Tracey Hagger said that she had written that her school library needed the $2OO (which will be subject to a $2OO subsidy from the Education Department) be cause . of the importance of books in our lives...” and that she had entered the contest only at her mother's urging. She and her 11-year-old sister, Fiona, had both entered, and had agreed to share the pocket-money if either won. The photograph shows Tracey receiving her prize from Mr Kinnell.