WINS £3O
Morningside Man Gets Prize in Sun’s Football Competition CLOSE ON 10,000 COUPONS OUT0 UT ° f near| y 10,000 entries, one coupon in THE SUN’S Football .. o :>rnpetition last week correctly forecast the eleven results in e Rugby, Soccer and League games played on Saturday.
The winner is Mr. F. J. Barnett, of 15 Mountain View Road, Morningside. J ne competitor alone made the correct selection, but 64 entrants had only on ®. r e « ult wrong in their coupons. -Thirty-one coupons had no address on them. HOW PRIZE ACCUMULATED The coupons came not only from Auckland, but from many other districts in the North Island. The big prize is the accumulation of three weeks prize-money, surprise victories and draws having put the selectors wrong on two successive Saturdays.
Several letters received were posted on Saturday afternoon, and one bore a date stamp with 3 p.m. on it. Competitors should remember that the coupons, which are published in THE SUN each day, should be sent in by 10 a.m. on Saturday. The accumulated prize having now been won, this week marks the return to the regular weekly prize of £lO offered by THE SUN to the reader who forecasts the twelve results in the three codes of football. Coupons are published on each night during the week and competitors may send in as many coupons as they please.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 51, 23 May 1927, Page 9
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228WINS £30 Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 51, 23 May 1927, Page 9
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