POPULARITY CONTEST

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 978, 22 May 1930, Page 1

POPULARITY CONTEST

Rush of Contestants THIRTY-SIX-DAY VACATION TOUR ADDED TO PRIZES ON Saturday a list of entrants in THE SUN’S Great Popularity Campaign will be published. The Campaign Department has been fairly deluged with people desiring to enter themselves, or enter friends in this great competition, and already some 500 nominations have been made. The first list published may be very incomplete as dozens of new names are coming in every day, and everywhere contestants are organising and making plans for getting votes and subscriptions. Scan the list as published on Saturday and see if your name is among those nominated; if you find it there, come to THE SUN’S Office immediately and get free receipt books, and begin piling up your votes. If your name is not there, call on the Campaign Manager immediately and place it there.

NEW PRIZE ADDED: Today we take pleasure in announcing another grand prize to be added to The Sun’s already impressive array. This prize is a 36-days’ Vacation Tour for two people through the wonderland of New . Zealand, and conducted by THE MOUNT COOK TOURIST COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND, LTD. It means that the lady or gentleman winning this prize may select a friend and they will spend 36 days, with all expenses paid, enjoying the beauties of the Dominion. The itinerary of the tour includes several days at the White Star Hotel, Queenstown, Brent’s Hotel, Rotorua, The Chateau, National Park, and the Hermitage. Mount Cook. The winners will be taken on motor tours and side trips to all places of interest at these well-known resorts. It will include trips to the Stocking Glacier, Sealey Lake, the Mueller Hut, and Sebastopol; as well as visits to Dunedin, Lyttelton and Wellington. The

winners of this prize will have 36 days of the most delightful entertainment and travel that anyone could desire. THE MOUNT COOK TOURIST COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND, LTD., will look after the winning contestant and their enjoyment through all this chain of hotels. The full itinerary of this trip which will be offered to the winner of The Sun’s VACATION TOUR may be had at the MOUNT COOK TOURIST COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND, LTD., and the ■Campaign Office of The Sun. This will be a prize which will be eagerly sought for and one that will be exceed: ingly popular. Another new prize which is being added today, and one that will be very attractive to a number of the Contestants, is purchased and now on exhibition at MESSRS, W. H. SMART, Drapers, in Karangahape Road, Ponsonby, and consists of £l2 16s merchandise order of one DOWN QUILT and ONE PAIR of “PETONE” BLANKETS.’” Contestants and their friends are cordially invited to come and view these popular prizes.