THE POPULAR BANANA

Shannon News, 9 November 1926, Page 2

THE POPULAR BANANA

ESSAYS BY CHILDREN. PRIZES AND A HUNCH. LONDON, Oct.^26. Although bananas were introduced into, this country only 47 years ago, the people in the British Isles are now eating 30,000,000 a year. A lunch to the chief prizewinners in a banana educational competition for boys and girls has been given by a London firm at the Hotel Cecil. Sixteen children present were handed cheques ranging in value from £IOO to £25. In over 10,000,000 words, 42,000 British children have testified to their love of bananas. The youngest competitor was a Dorset boy of four. The longest essay, of 13,000 words, earned the writer, aged 13, a special consolation prize of 10s 6d. Ema Boyd, who won £25, has had spinal trouble since childhood, and her prize is to be spent on her education. Altogether 27 money prizes and 1000 consolation prizes were distributed.