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Otago Daily Times, Issue 11746, 30 May 1900, Page 3

Publications, ©TAG©' WITNESS HAS Mt«L 3 1900. Money Prizes amounting to TWENTY-ONE GUINEAS are offeree! for Competition: PRS2S TALE S©?BPETSTi©?B. The Management, recognising the incentive to Colonial writers offered by these Prize Tale Competitions, have decided to offer the following Prizes to be competed for. At the same time they desire to state that a, higher average of work in these stories will be expected, ancl arranged for in the judging, since it is reasonable, in the interests of writers and readers both, to expect a yearly improving standard of merit. FIRST SECTION': Prizes will be offered thus: Best Story illustrating New Zealand country life; farm or station— First Prize £3 3 0 Second Prize .. ... .. .. 2 2 0 SECOND SECTION: Best Story illustrating New Zealand Goldfields Life, Mining and Social aspectsFirst Prize S fo Second Prize 2 2 0 THIRD SECTION: Best Story illustrating New Zealand City Life, Social and Intellectual or Political— One Prize .. £3 3 0 Stories not to .exceed GOOO words, to be clearly and legibly written on one side of the paper' only, marked "Witness Prize Tale Competition," with NTJMBEK OP SECTION ■j.J.-n«y ARE ENTERED FOR, and in all. cases to bo accompanied by the real name and address of the writer, as well as a norn do nlumc. " All MSS. to be in by SATURDAY, June 30. " ■ PRIZE PHOTOGRAPHS© • COMPETITION. So much interest was taken in the lornier. Witness Photographic Competitions,, and thb circle of amateur photographers has so widened of late, that the management has every confidence in declaring a competition in connection with their forthcoming Christmas Animal. The standard of amateur work in all branches of photography has rapidly risen, and our climate is so favourable to the technical pro-, cesses, our scenery so stimulating to artistic results, that we desire to give a. wide choice of" subject as an inducement for really creditable work. .. Prizes will be offered thus: Best and most artistic treatment of Country Landscape, representing some phase of Farming and Station LifeFirst Prize £2 2 0 Second Prize 110 Most interesting and artistic treatment of subject representing Goldfields Lite. These must be distinctively Mimas, and show Mining work of some kind, preferably Dredging or Hydraulic Sluicing, in progress. They must also have such interest as pertains to the action of the toilers— -"First Prize £2 o 0 Second Prize. 1 x' 0 For the best Figure Study, single or grouped, illustrating New Zealand types of beauty, one prize is offered. Ihe choice of subjects may include matrons, young girls, and children over iour (4) yearsPrize .. .. ... .. '.. £2 "2 0 The Photographic Competition must be distinctly -understood to.be limited to amateurs. All photographs sent in to become- the property of the Management. j All photos to be in by TUESDAY, July 31. npHE OTAGO WITNESS has the Largest JL Circulation of any weekly in the colony. Found in every farmhouse in Otago and Southland, and circulating largely in' Canterbury and northern rural districts, it offers unrivalled facilities for Advertising anything of interest to country readers. ""Present circulation (steadily increasing). 9800 weekly. 27au