FLAG COMPETITIONS

Grey River Argus, 14 March 1941, Page 4

FLAG COMPETITIONS

NATIONAL SAVINGS, WON BY WEBER. WELLINGTON, March 13. Pride of place for the Dominion in the llag-flymg competition conducted in connection with the national savings compaign, previously held by Alfredton, in the Wellington district, has now passed to Weber, a small settlement in the Palmerston North district, which has achieved the additional distinction of being the first town to record 100 per cent, success, the number of depositors eoualling the total population of the district Te Anga, which leads in the Hamilton district, is next with nearly 91 per cent., and Alfredton. which still holds first place in the Wellington district, is third with 86 per cent The honour of flying one of th e special national savings flags goes to the leading town in each of the 18 postal districts in the Dominion These towns, all of which show an increased percentage in comparison with the preceding fortnightly period, are as follows: —Auckland district, Whitford; Blenheim district. Havelock; Christchurch district, Waiau; Dunedin district, Owaka; Gisborne district, Teararoa; Greymouth district, Ross; Hamilton district, Teanga;; Invercargill district, Waikaka; Napier district, Porangahau; Nelson district, Murchison; New Plymouth district, Awakino; Oamaru district, Kurow; Palmerston Northdistrict, Weber; Thames district, Whakatane; Timaru district, Geraldine; Wanganui district, Patea; Wellington district, Alfredton; Westport, district, Westport. With the exception of the Christchurch postal dstrict, in which Waiau now obtains precedence over Akaroa, the leading towns’’ are unchanged from the preceding period,