RULES.

New Zealand Graphic, 20 December 1894, Page 5

RULES.

1. The Graphic reserves the right to publish any story sent in other than the prize stories. 2. MSS. will not be returned before the result is announced, and applications before that date will not receive attention. After the results of the Competition are made known the Editor will post such unsuccessful MSS. as may not be required’ to those who then make application enclosing stamps. 3. The Editor cannot undertake to answer inquiries having reference to the treatment of the stories in detail. The particulars given are sufficient for the purposes of the competition, and everything else is left to the judgment and discretion of the competitors. The award of the judges will be published as soon after the close of the Competition as possible, and no information respecting the award will be given to any competitor before this publication. 4. Each MSS. should be prepaid, and if left open at the ends will be carried at book post rates. It should be addressed to the ‘ Editor, New Zealand Graphic, Shortland street. Auckland.* 5. A motto instead of the writer’s name must be written under the title of the story. The author’s real name must be enclosed in an envelope and addressed to the editor. BEARING THE MOTTO AND THE WORDS ‘ STORY COMPETITION ’ ON THE TOP LEFT CORNER. This envelope must not be placed in the MSS. packet, but must be posted separately. It must also contain a declaration that the work is original and entirely the sender’s own. 6. AH contributions must reach the office before May 15th. 7. Choice of subject rests with the writer, but the scene must be laid iu New Zealand, and be of special interest to New Zealanders. It may deal with any subject, natural, supernatural. love, heroism, adventure, life on the gumfields, gold mines or country, search for treasure, fighting or peace, in fact anything bright and interesting, and free from anything unsuitable for family reading. 8 Write clearly, and on one side of the paper only. No paper larger than foolscap should be used. In cases of equal literary merit, preference will be given to stories lending themselves to illusti ation.