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Otago Witness, Issue 3430, 9 December 1919, Page 30

RUPERT BROOKE LITERARY PRIZE. PRIZE FOR "GALLIPOTJ" POEM. A prize of 25 guineas, to bo known as "The Rupert Brooke Literary Prize, is bdS offered by the 01<1 CMWrrf Asso-oi-itimi of the Presbyterian Ladies Colle Melbourne in commemoration of Peace. The promoters feel that no more inspiring subject for an epic has ever been provided in the world's "history, and, in order to afford full scope for the talent of Australian and New Zealand writers they have specified that the poems must ho of not less than 1-0 lines, with a maximum oi, 300 Hne« The adjudication has been entrusted to Professor Wallace, and Mr Archibald Stronff. of "the Melbourne Univeratv, and Mr Olinhtint president of the Melbourne Shakespeare Soe : ety. Any British-born subjpct) resident of the Commonwealth or the' Dominion of New Zealand for at leas* five years, is eligible to compote. lhe hon. - secretary of the movement is Mrs Sutherland-. Peppin street. Camberwell, Victoria, from whom full particulars of the oomnetition, which will close on March 31. 1920. may be obtained. It is proposed to award prizes in future years for nrose and plays.

The French Government is making a first issue of 160 million sterling lottery bonds in order to reconstruct the devastated areas. The bonds are 500 franca each redeemable in 60 years and bear 5 per cent, interest free of oil French taxation. The prizes are a sterling annually, una the hi