PRIZES IN WAR TIME

Evening Post, Volume XCII, Issue 75, 26 September 1916, Page 6

PRIZES IN WAR TIME

SHOULD WINNERS ACCEPT

THEM?

HOW THE WOUNDED MIGHT BE

HELPED

The question as to 'whether winners of prizes in any competition should accept them while the-war is in progress was mentioned at the meeting of the Karori Defence Eifle Club last night by President H. Marshall, who moved as follows :—

"Until the end of the present war the value of all prizes in the club's competitions be given to the fund for the relief of wounded New Zealanders and their dependents; certificates only to be given to the winners of the various competitions."

In speaking to the motion, which was carried, President Marshall asked why should, clubs of all kinds not pay the value of their prize-lists into the patriotic funds of the country, for the relief of our 'wounded and disabled? There was no honour in taking prizes won today. At this: time, the simple honour of a win should be quite sufficient. No sum, however small, could bo despised, and if/clubs of every kind in New Zealand were to pay over the amount of their annual prize-lists, the fund for the, relief of the country's wounded would increase by many thousands of pounds. Let each man ask himself, is he justified in taking a prize to-day, when, practically without .any cost to himself, he could hand over something to help the need of the Empire. "I believe," added the President, "that jnst as many entries would be received for competitions,.- shows, horse races, etc., even if it were a condition of entry that the whole, or a proportion, of the prizes or prize money were to be paid to the fund for onr wounded and disabled. This is, at any Tate, the position obtaining in this club to-day." The Chairman further moved that until the end of the present war no club challenge trophies be competed for.— This was also carried.