Final Results.

Otago Witness, Issue 2805, 18 December 1907, Page 44 (Supplement)

Final Results.

"Alpha" (Competitions 9, 13. 15) .. £2 10 "Lavender"' (Competitions 1, 10) ... 1 0

E. H. (Competitions 4, 12). Aunty Ned (Competitions 5. 11), "Cantab" (Competitions 6. 14), "Runanga" (Competition 2), "Starlight" (Competition 3). "Shasta" (Competition 7), " Jewel " and " Goldie," Maungatua (Competition 8).

In announcing the final results as above I wish once more to thank the competitors in the long list of competitions just concluded for the thoroughness, patience, and enthusiasm they have shown throughout. Every one cannot come in the winner, or even claim the con-solation stakes, but every single competitor of mine may have the sa-tisfaction of knowing that, while the excellence of their effort* only made my own task the more difficult, yet it has been the moans of making the competitions more enjoyable both to the competitors themselves and to tho large number of readers who have followed the whole series with the keenest interest.

The cookery recipe-? have been welcomed by a very large circle, those for invalid cookery l>oiritr especially valuable. TTie literary quotations have been of great merit and must have benefited all of us by the stimulus to memory and research which they afforded. The topics of domestic management, lucrative employment of leisure hours, bringing up of children, and conduct of home life have all elicited a series of practical, helpful, and high minded responses which will find their immortality in many a scrapbook and " clippings" all over New Zealand. Last, but not least, the kindly and generous response of competitors in No. 8 Competition claims my warmest thanks. Ere this comes before the public all mv kind friends will have seen the Witness illustration of the dolls sent in for tho combined competitions in " Dot's " and " Emmelino's" pages, and have read of the reception given to these dear play-friends by the children at the orphanages.

In conclusion. I should like to say that what gives " Lavender " the one winning point entitling her to the consolation prize ovor the other competitors scoring the same number of wins, is the fact that in competition No. 11 " Lavender " «ont in the same quotation as " Aunty Ned." but tho latter arriving first, according to the term** of the competition, took precedonce. Emmeline