THE "GRAND NATIONAL."

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17861, 6 August 1918, Page 4

THE "GRAND NATIONAL."

A NEW NOTE. A distinctly new note is being featured this year in connection with Grand National business. Early August sees this new note reflected' in tno Grand National effort now being organised to provide comforts for our soldiers in the trenches. Follow the trail of coupons in tho wiuqows in Casual Street, una see how tno trail is lougi/ueiuug: Caanei btreet central has eoutriouwd loyauy to uie " trail," and nearly every wmuow bears a coupon, muicaung tno piuoliase of at leant thirty penny tickets in the Aram nay Copper Iran's LucKy Number Competition—a Grand National cttort. iho idea is simple. The coupon is a receipt ior tho naif-crown's wortn of penny tickets. And the coupon, when posted in the winuow, frees you from the attentions of coupon sellers, just as the badge given by tno collectors m the street or tno Square secures you immunity from further canvassing. It shows, too, that you recognise tno timeliness of the citizens' effort to help the Lady Liverpool Eund, and that you appreciate the magnificent work it is doing in sending no fewer than eight thousand (bUuO) parcels every month to our own brave soldier lads from Canterbury. Each parcel contains just those things that tno boys, like best. The workers in this grand service know exactly what is wanted, for tho "boys" themseives have told them so in thousands and thousands of grateful letters. So lengthen the trail. Strengthen the trail. Buy a coupon, and post it in your window. ', , ■ ■■ That's the big point. Don'fcj hide your light under a bushel. Display your coupon, and your neighbour will display his, too. In the interests or the boys, what about taking upon yourself tho duty of seeing that every house in your street, or your particular blook ha» a coupon in the window ? Lot of bother? Well, perhaps it is. But it's a bigger "lot of bother" to leave father, mother, sweetheart, ■ wife, and little children, and go • out there to face German bullets and German frightfulness. It's a bitrger " lot of bother to go through the hell of battle, and to return at night to a " dugout," tired and wornout—hungry, perhaps—grimy, certainly—and sick of the sights of the battle. Think what it means to those grand boys of ours when, after weeks of that sort of thing, they get these parcels from homo. " H-o-m-e, they ve learned to spell it out there, learned to appreciate it, and they're glad beyond words when your thoughtfulness brings theni n change from the regulation faro, a few delicacies, some extra comforts. So follow tho trail; lengthen it, strengthen it. And post the coupon in your window. Watch the lengthening trail, and ask, "What have I done? What have I sacrificed Has it cost mo a sinfdf* moal " Then think, and lengthen the trail. You are asked but to'buy thirty penny tickets' in the lucky number competition, and each ticket has its equal chance of drawing one of the hundreds of prizes, valued at £1 to £IOO. Post the coupon in your window, lest you break the trail which bears your goodwi'l offering to the trenches. For hnlf-a-crown you will get thirtv pennv tickets and a coupon at any of tho following special stands:—Strange's Corner. The D.I.C.

Ballantyne's. ( Bank of New Zealand Tramway Shelter. North side of Main Tramway Shelter. The Municipal Patriotic Stall, Cathedral Square. At the Post "Office.

Broadway's Corner. Armstrong's Corner. Tattcrsall's on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Buy tickets representing the district you want to win. The colours and areas are as follow: 1. Opawa, St Martins, Cashmero, Sydenham—Pink Ticket. '» Coronation Street, Lincodn Road. Riccarton-rGreen Ticket.

3 Fendalton, Papanui—Yellow Ticket 4. North Brighton, DalHngton, Linwood, South Brighton—Blue Ticket. 5. Cianford Street, Edgeware Road —White Ticket.

6. Sumnei, Woolston—Buff Ticket. Lengthen the trail. Post the coupon in your window. 1