Prize for Best Composition or Essay.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXV, Issue IV, 28 July 1900, Page 182

Prize for Best Composition or Essay.

Ail of you who still go to school have compositions or esays to write, 1 expect, Well, I am going to give two prizes for the best composition sent me before August 8. ’t ou may send one you have written in school or von ma*v send a special one, but it should not. be more than, say, about li.o words. You must write on one side of the paper only. This is very important. You may choose any subject you like, but you must do it all by yourselves, except you may get vour parents or teachers to give you a subject. Try and make your composition as original as possible. Say whatever you really think yourself about the subject you write about: I am anxious for all cousins to go in for this competition, and shall give ven nice books as prizes. One prize will Ih< for cousins over 12, and one for cousins under 12. If there are enough good compositions, T may give some extra prizes. All cousins old or new mav go in for either of

these competitions, so 1 expect a fine lot of work over them. The more you give the better I shall like it. Remember the da.e of closing is August Bth.