The weight guessing competition or-] g'nised by Messrs I>ixou Bros., hutch- • ere. of Cashel Street, for the Hirer Improvement I'neniplnverl Fund this week resulted in t.he fund bonefitting by £72 3s. The competition closed on Wednesday night and the biillnofi: was weighed in Dixon's shop at 8.30 this morning, in the presence of the. Deputy-Mayor (Councillor d. A. Dies her), the Town Clerk (Mr H. R. Smith) and tlio organiser of the River Improvement! Fund, (Mr R. R. Owen). Tickets were scrutinised and checked at the Council I Chambers and the winner proved to be j Mrs Wright. 20. "Lincoln Road, Sproy. don- She was the only one that guessed ' the correct weighs of 19041b5. and sb*- ; therefore entitled to the special j prize given by Dixon Bros., of £TO 10s. • ■the competitors had a very wide range i in their estimates of the weight of the beast, ranging from 1631 b» to a million
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16809, 11 August 1922, Page 8
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