N.Z. MADE LABELS COMPETITION

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 886, 1 February 1930, Page 7

N.Z. MADE LABELS COMPETITION

PRIZEWINNERS ANNOUNCED AMAZING COLLECTIONS The competition for collections of labels from New Zealand-made goods has now been judged. The collections submitted were remarkable for the wide diversity of labels collected and the ingenuity with which they wore displayed; and the judges had a difficult task in allocating the prizes. The winning competitors are as follow: First, Order for £3.—Miss Beryl do Berry, 25 "Wilton Street, Grey Lynn. Second, Order for £3.—Miss Ray Lawrence, 20 Raymond Road, Point Chevalier. Third, Order for £l.—Miss Grace l„ Brooke, 224 Mount Albert Road, Sandringham. Because of special merit displayed by several of the entrants, the judges decided to make five additional awards as consolation prizes of 5s each. The jvinners arc: Miss Elaine Goodey, King's Street, Te Kuiti. llarry Walmsley, care of Mrs. G. Mayall, 317 Dominion Road. Stanley G. Crosley, Old Vicarage, Great South Road, Papakura. Howard James Fry. 121 Railway Cottage. Ohakune Junction. Jean Robins, 1 Grove Road, Papakura. Orders to the value of the prize ■money, lor the purchase of New Zea-land-made goods, will be sent to the prize-winners from the office of the Manufacturers' Association. In commencing their work the judges set before them as a standard the three qualities of diversity, numbers and neatness of display. The enterprise of the children in securing labels was often amazing. For example, who would have thought of taking pencil rubbings of the maker’s trade-mark on grates? Let three or four collections included that. There were also pencil rubbings of bars of soap, and from tins and bottles. Some children submitted the tops of tins, hammered flat, neatly fastened among the other labels. There were labels from every conceivable source, such as suit tags, jam-tin and chocolate wrappers, butter paper, tobacco packages, labels from beer bottles, matchboxes and biscuit-tins, also boot tags, pieces cut from flour bags, cerient. sacks and bacon wrappings; makers' labels from blankets, rugs and mattresses, samples ot printing, and so cm. The extraordinary range may bo gauged from the fact that several collections included nearly 300 labels. In themselves these labels were an index to the wide range of articles made and sold in New Zealand. The collections will be on display in tho Hall of Industries to be opened shortly in the Queen's Arcade by the -Manufacturers' Association.