QUEEN CARNIVAL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24414, 27 September 1940, Page 8

QUEEN CARNIVAL

MYSTERY BAGS TO-DAY £IOO FROM VINCENT COUNTY Expected to prove one of the most popular of the many attractions of Otago's £IOO,OOO Queen Carnival, mystery bag day will be held to-day. Brisk business is anticipated from the moment the ticket sellers commence operations at 8.30 this morning. The organisers emphasise that whilst some tickets are worth big prizes—one being a gas cooker—all tickets, which are priced at Is each, will secure a prize. There are no blanks. From 9 a.m to 9 p.m. the old Telegraph Office will be open as the distributing depot. Ticket-holders are advised that all prizes will be handed out from the depot only. Many and varied arc the attractions arranged by the various committees; and while contributing to a worthy cause members of the public will find much to intrigue and interest them. No fewer than seven major art unions are at present in progress, with such attractive prizes as a £3500 modern house, a motor car, and a pony complete with saddle and bridle. There is a uniform Drice of 6d for all tickets. Lucky Raffle Tickets The Navy Queen Food Group Subcommittee, which is at present offering a prize of 10s 6d to the purchaser of a lucky ticket in the raffle for the house, intends carrying this method of encouraging sales still further. From next week, through the generosity of members of the sub-committee, a lucky ticket will be sold each week until the conclusion of the carnival. These lucky tickets, it should be noted, are being sold only by agents of the Food Group Sub-committee. The Casino The usual week-end sessions will be commenced at the Casino to-night at 7.30. It will be under the control of the Army Queen Committee. Several new games of skill will be introduced and Bren Finlayson's orchestra will provide music. Admission is free, and lucky tickets will be distributed each evening. , . . Extending a welcome to the Air Force Queen, Miss Mary Pratt, at a country function. Mr James Ritchie, chairman of the Vincent County Council, paid a tribute to the extended work she was doing for the cause, and announced that his council had decided to give £IOO to the Air Force Queen Carnival Committee. This generous gesture is greatly appreciated by the Otago Queen Carnival Executive. Twenty-three Pounds for Two Songs At Alexandra on Wednesday evening the large audience gt the concert given there subscribed £23 after Miss Pratt had rendered "There'll Always Be an England" and "Land of Hope and Glory." The amount raised at the concert reached the gratifying total of £BO. Country Hospitality During her tour of the country districts Miss Pratt has been received with overwhelming hospitality; tor which she and her party are greatly appreciative. The schools have, without exception, appealed to Mis s> Pratt to make a personal appearance in tne class rooms. At the Alexandra District High School on Wednesday morning Miss Pratt led the children in singing " There'll Always Be an England." The Clyde School was also visited. ARMY QUEEN DANCE Arrangements have been made for the use of both halls at the Town Hall dance to-morrow. The Concert Chamber will be used for old-time dancing, and the main hall for a modern programme, the music for which wiL be by Mat de Laneys Radio Rhythmics The vocalists will be Miss DaphS? Jordan arid Messrs James McFarlane and Arthur Waller The nld-time music will be playea py Wright's Band. Patrons will be allowed to go from one hall to the other. The entrance will be through the main hall. Further particulars are. advertised. ________———