“Star’s” Big £l00 Christmas Competition Is Launched.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18000, 10 November 1926, Page 3

“Star’s” Big £loo Christmas Competition Is Launched.

LAST SATURDAY’S “STAR” SHOULD BE KEPT AND STUDIED BY ALL BOYS AND GIRLS. SECOND SECTION APPEARS TO-DAY. The biggest Christmas competition ever offered to the children of New Zealand was launched in Saturday’s “ Star,” and. will be continued in Wednesday and Saturday issues. The second section of the Competition appears on the Children’s Page to-day. Entries will be accepted from any part of New Zealand. South Island entries should be sent to “The Star,” Christchurch; North Island entries should go to “ The Auckland Star ” and Wellington “Evening Post,” which are co-operating with the Christchurch “ Star ” in this great Competition. The first prize will be two wireless sets, complete with all equipment and accessories, and valued at £25, and, besides that, there are gold wristlet watches, cameras, tennis racquets, and cricket bats, and dozens of other good prizes. There is no entrance fee other than coupons, which may be cut from “ The Star.” The conditions are not severe, and the Competition will be well within tho capacity of the average child. Care and a little ingenuity will ba required, but no more. To avoid disappointment every household, in which there are children should place itself at once on the subscription list of “ The Star.” Orders for the paper should be sent to the Publisher, “ The Star,” Christchurch; or Telephone 3875. One of the conditions is that no boy or girl directly or Indirectly connected with the staff of either “ The Star,” Christchurch, the “ Evening Post,” Wellington, or 44 The Auckland Star ” will be allowed to compete. Last Saturday’s 46 Star ” (November 6) has the first instalment and full particulars of the Competition, which is open to every boy and girl up to the age of eighteen. The wireless set for the South Island, a five-valve Gilfillan radio set, has been donated by Broadcast Reception Ltd. Jones and Sons, jewellers, have also donated a solid gold watch for boy or girl, for the best Canterbury solution of the Competition. THE PRIZE LIST. First Prize 5-Valve Gilfillan Neutrodyne Wireless Set, complete with all accessories, value £25. Second „ (Boy) English Roadster Cycle. Second „ (Girl) Gold Wristlet Watch and Bangle. Third „ (Boy) Camera, English Ensign, F.B, doable lens, SI x 2£. Third „ (Girl) Camera, English Ensign, F.B, double lens, St z 21. Fourth „ (Boy? Cricket Bat. Fourth „ (Girl) Tennis Racquet. Fifth „ (Boy) Football. Fifth „ (Girl) Manicure Set. Sixth „ (Boy) Camera, V.P.K. Sixth „ (Girl) Camera, V.P.JL. Seventh „ (Boy) 400 ft. Beam Torch. Seventh „ (Girl) !. Solid Leather Attache Case. 50 CONSOLATION PRIZES (just the little things that boys and girls want). AND, IN ADDITION: Silver luminous wristlet watch to boy in North Island. Silver luminous wristlet watch to boy in South Island. Gold wristlet watch to girl in North Island. Gold wristlet watch to girl in South Island. Silver luminous wristlet watch to a boy in Auckland. Silver luminous wristlet watch to a boy in Wellington. Silver luminous wristlet watch to a boy in Christchurch. Gold wristlet watch to a girl in Auckland. Gold wristlet watch to a girl in Auckland. Golri wristlet watch to a girl in Wellington. Gold wristlet watch to a girl in Christchurch.