UNUSUAL PRIZE CONTESTS.
The popular sixpenny magazine "Life"—the best-selling magazine in Australasia —has decided to conduct a series of simple yet enertaining prize contests, based on current topics, and open to ali readers. Each month a new contest will be announced, and each issue of "Life" will be found contain the best answers of recently judged contests, so some capital reading is in store for readers.
Full details of Contest No 3. —a Cricket Question— appear in "Life" for November. It deals with the Australian Eleven. just returned from England. A clever drawing by Nuttall is given, showing a telegraph messenger a message from the noted "Si:;" - the payers who were dropepd ont oC the team by the Board of Control. If you had been one of "The Six, what message would you have sent to the Australian Eleven on its return? asks "Life."
£5 cash is offered for the most deserving answer, and ten other prizes. Entries may be humorous or serious in telegram, letter, or postcard form, or in verse, etc.—but must not exceed thirty words. How to enter is described in November "Life" —on sale everywhere for sixpence. In addition to fifty pages of timelv departments devoted to sport, books, invention, and current affairs, "Life" contains many fine illustrated articles. The best of the articles, with a strong Australian colour, is "A Kacc With Death for 1000 Miles" —the story of Eyre's arch march round the Australian Bight, told by W. H. Fitchett. "Out With the Destroyers" ■—-a series of pen and camera pictures of Australia's Infant Navy and "The History of a Vanishing Tribo," by Edward Milne, are two articles of strong interest. These are supplemented by such attractive features as "Tho Spirit of Rhodes"—how South Africa has remembered the nation builder; "Will There be Civil War in Ireland?" an instructive review of tho Home Rule question; "When Teddy Came to Delaware," by an Australian in Am°rica; "Life of King Edward," a powerful review by tho editor.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 514, 2 November 1912, Page 5
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331UNUSUAL PRIZE CONTESTS. King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 514, 2 November 1912, Page 5
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