PROSPERITY WEEK

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21554, 27 July 1933, Page 12

PROSPERITY WEEK

MANY ATTRACTIONS A STREET PROCESSION GYMKHANA AT EPSOM Next Monday is the first day of Prosperity Week, and committees supporting the various queens arc working energetically in arranging various.entertainments and other means of raising money for their candidates. The sports queen funds should bo very considerably augmented by the proceeds of a wrestling match between Georgo Walker and Harry Mamos in the Town Hall on the opening night of tho week, the Auckland Wrestling Association having agreed to give all profits to tho sports queen committee. The Arabian Nights ball in tho Town Hall on Thursday, August 3, is the principal attraction of tho week, but several other interesting events have boen arranged for the fund as a wholo, apart from tho many functions organised for individual queens. On Friday, August 4, a street procession will bo hold, and competition is being arranged in several classes, including commercial exhibits, decorated motor-ears, decorated horse-drawn vehicles, humorous displays, original displays and juvenile displays. There are nominal entry fees in all classes except tho last three. City bands will take part. Two thousand invitations have been issued for tho Mayoress' children's fancy dress party, to be held in the Town Hall on Saturday, August 5. Tho building will be divided into "bays," in each of which groups of children will be given amusement by well-known entertainers. The queen committees aro pressing tho salo of tickets for this energetically, and many hundreds of acceptances already have been received. For the Saturday, tho Auckland Trotting Club has placed its course at Alexandra Park, Epsom, at the disposal of Prosperity We. k workers for a gymkhana. Tho ] rogrammo includes two trotting events, three events foi Hunt Club members, two boxing bouts, two wrestling matches, a physical drill exhibition, and amateur cycle, harrier and running event t. The Back-to-Ch ; hood Party, which is being arranged y the Sports Queen committee, has iji. been fixed for August 8. Everyone attending is expected to be dressed to represent a child under the ago of 15 years.

The crowning ceremony will take placo at the Town Hall on Friday, August 11. Voting closes at 9 p.m., and the actual ceremony will be performed about 10 p.m. It will be followed by the presentation of Madame Edith Baird's Heart of Auckland Pageant. Forming a part of tho Prosperity Week effort will bo tho production of Mrs. Nello Porter's play, "O.ut of Yesterday," to be given in the Town Hall concert chamber on August 22 and 23. All tickets for this sold before 9 p.m. on August 11 will be credited to tho various queen committees selling tliein. Throughout the week will be a win-dow-dressing competition, arranged in different classes according to tho types of business. A public voting contest, cash dockets for 5s carrying the right to a vote, will be held, the public being invited .to judge the correct placings of the first and second prize winners in each class. The windows will be judged by a committee of three.