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

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18011, 23 November 1926, Page 11

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

SATURDAY AND WEDNESDAY iV * “ STARS ” SHOULD BE STUDIED BY ALL BOYS AND GIRLS. The biggest Christmas competition ever offered to the children of New Zealand was launched in Saturday's “Star” of November 6. and will be continued in Wednesday and Saturday issues. The third section of the Competition appeared in last Saturday's “ Star.” and a third set of heads will appear in Wednesday's “Star.” 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.” Th. conditions aro not sever., and the Competition will be well within the capacity of the average child. Care and a little ingenuity will be required, but no more. To avoid disappointment every household in rvhich 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 3575. 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 “ The Auckland Star ” will be allowed to compete. Saturday's “ Star " of November 6 has the first instalment. Full particulars of the Competition, which' is open to every boy and girl up to the age of eighteen, appear in the “ Star ” daily. 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. Tint PrUe 5-V»lve Gilfillan Neutrodyne Wirelesj Set, mounted on panel, value £2s. Second „ (Boy} English Roadster Cycle. Second „ (Girl) Gold Wristlet Watch and Bangle. Third „ (Boy) Camera, English Ensign, F.B, double lens, z 21. Third (Girl) Camera, English Ensign, F.B, double lens, 31 x 31. 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.K. Seventh „ (Boy) 400 ft. Beam TorchSeventh „ (Girl) Solid Leather Attache Case. SO 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 Wellington. Gold wristlet watch to a girl in Christchurch.