PLUNKET BABIES

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 12867, 22 May 1936, Page 4

PLUNKET BABIES

PHOTOGR APHIC 'COMPETITION'.

OVER £240 ALREADY REALISED

With only to-day and to-morrow to in intensity, and votes for the candimost beautiful baby competition grows iu iutnesity, and votes for the candidates are rolling in continuously. To-day, commencing at 10 a.in. the first progress results announcing the leaders in the various classes will be shown - in Messrs.. Ret ties' windows, and thereafter latest plaCings will be shown hourly. This procedure will be followed all day to-day and up to the f hour of closing the poll, 12.30 p.m. tomorrow .

Another novel arrangement for showing the pi icings of candidates is being displayed by Mr. T. Adams. This-is in the form' of a miniature racecourse divided into six tracks signifying the different classes in the competition, and the leading horses carrying the numbers of the competitors at the ton of the poll at that particular time. These figures will also bo revised hourly.

Tho ambition of the convenors of the competition was to exceed the amount raised in a similar contest at Hamilton, when £250 was realised. ( The Gisborne Society has alreadv over I £240, and with a strenuous concluding/*, campaign of one and a-half days, when voting naturally will be very heavy, it can be taken for granted that the Hamilton total will Le easily exceeded. Yesterday the funds of the Society received a considerable addition through the medium of a publicluncheon in Messrs. Hetties’ -lounge, a very substantial meal being provided by a band of willing helpers. Eotariansand their wives were present in large numbers, as well as other sections of the public. The tabels seated one hundred and twenty at one sitting, and as fast -as vacancies occurred they were quickly filled. The position of the leaders in the various sections, together with the serial numbers of the photographs, are as follows:

Class A, children under six months. —24 Roger, 48 Roger( 30 Graeme, 47 David. 35 Rees, 34 Ross, 4 Henry, 12 Barbara, 13 Elizabeth, and 40 Barbara. Glass B. over six months and under 12 months.—lol Morris, 109 Gillian. 63 lan, 138 Winton. 132 Allan, 139 Annette, -108 Donald, 71 Janice. 142 Raewyn. and 140 Juarine. Glass C- Over 12 months and under two years.—73 Jeanne, 174 lan. 193 Diana, 454 Robert, 189 Michael. 206 Arine'tte. 420 Wendy. 220 Naomi,' 197 Bri’an, and 204 Keith. Class D. oyer two years and under four years.—293 Lesley, 338 Karen. 28-5 Christopher, 268 Annette. 412 Prudence, 316 Barbara. 404 Sandy, 323 Janet. 4-52 David, and 445 Elizabeth .

Class E. over four years and under six years.—3B4 Nina, 3-59 Jennifer. 348 Sheila, 383 Deane, 3-52 David, 353 Natalie, 354 Susan. 349 Margaret. 347 Simon, and 400 Valerie. _ Class F. twins under six years.—397 jf Janet and Ross. 398 lan and Bruce. 393 Patricia and Bettina. and 399 Jack and Jill.