AUCKLAND COMPETITIONS
: FINANCIAL POSITION TO BE . DISCUSSED. Dominion Special Service. ' I Auckland, Feb’ruary 13. No prizes have yet been distributed by the. Auckland Competitions Society in connection with the festival held last August. A prizewinner’s complaint, referred to officials of the; society to-day, was met with the reply that a meeting of the executive wilt be held in about a week’s time to discuss ' the financial position. It is admitted . .that although competitors have come' forward freely, the public patronage"of the'annual competitions has been disappointing In recent years. The society has recently been carrying on with a bank overdraft of £3OO but no difficulty was anticipated in -providing the prizes until the matter of the' settlement of an old account for a considerable sum arose. The work of the Society is' almost entirely honorary
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 120, 14 February 1929, Page 12
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