YOUTHFUL ESSAYISTS.
"SEVEN LITTLE AUSTRALIANS'" COMPETITIONS. The Beaumont Smith management at the Grand Opera House offered prizes for essays on "What I am going to do for father and mother so they will take me to see 'Seven Little Australians'?" Essays came in from as' far north as Auckland, and as far south as Invercargill, and some wondrous suggestions were made by the youthful competitors as to the maimer which they would relieve mother and father of their parental worries, and incidentally earn the wherewithal to see "Seven Little Australians.'' On Wednesday afternoon the prizes were awarded at the conclusion of the performance by Mr. Harrington Reynolds, who plavs the Old Doctor. The complete list of winners was as follows :— ' Boys.—Eric Parnell, 221 Tinakori Road, Wellington, 1; Reg Osborn, 167 Hanson. Street, Wellington, 2; Fred Maslin, Aglionby Street, Wellington, 3. Consolations-*-Edwin Warcup, Seatoun Road, Kilbirnie; Alex Macplierson, 31 Majoribanlcs Street, Wellington.
Girls.—Ethel Maslin, Aglionby Street, Wellington, 1; Valtla Elliott, 92 Austin _ Street, 2; Zena Freeman, 28Tinakori Road, 3. Consolations —Eileen Mulholland, 41 Molesworth Street; Linda Rountree, 60 Austin Street; Enid Coe. Taylor's Terrace. . Prizes were also awarded to the following for their jumble puzzles in connection with the same show:— Boys.—Stuart Macßobie, 65 Kclburn Parade, 1; Arthur Petrie, 23 Epuni Street, 2; Horace Grove,' 70 Gliuznce Street, 3. _ Consolations—Ted Wright, 97 Tinakori Road: Frank Blora, 1 Holloway Road, Mitchelltown, Girls. —Ngaire Clark, 5 Goring Street, 1; lolanthe Livermore, 81 Hawkestone Street, 2; Dorothy Bird, 31 Grove Road, Kelburn, 8. Consolations— Qneenie Neill, 116 Tinnkori Road; Florence Stafford, Ithandalln'h. IN THE ENEMY'S COUNTRY AIRMEN EFFECT REPAIRS AND KILL FIVE AUSTRIAN'S. Petrograd, March 3. Paschaloff, an aviator, with General Ivanoff's army in Poland, accompanied by a, mechanic, made a reconnaissance. I'hoy descended, owing to trouble with tlioir motor, behind tlio Austrian lines, and while effecting repairs they opened fire with a. machine gun, killing five'out of six of an Austrian patrol. The survivor surrendered, and was taken Hboi'fc] the aeronlmo lo tue Russian liuos,
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2401, 5 March 1915, Page 5
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