MORE POPULARITY

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1001, 18 June 1930, Page 10

MORE POPULARITY

THE regrettable lack of publicity i n t The Sun. to date, regarding’the i progress of the Popularity Campaign i in Waikikamookau. has been due t jan unavoidable lack of information | rather than through deliberate neglect This omission can now be rectified j as news has just come through via ; parcel post concerning the condition of the contest in that thriving township. The leader in M'aikikamookau up to the present, is Miss Martha Finchley. with 176.3-57.005.937,0« i votes. Following close on her hcells her nephew Sam. who is only 4; votes and half a length behind her Their relative position at this stage of the race is due to an unfortunate lapse on Miss Finchley's part. j t | seems that in following out her I usual custom of waylaying and garrotting small Sun boys, in order to tear out the daily coupon from their newspapers, she attacked one for whom Sam was lying in wait at the next corner. This put her several votes ahead of Sam. i When last seen they were on the | horizon, and both going well.

Interviewed yesterday for his views on the competition. Sam said that he was out to win. He had many friends at Waikikamookau. and if they came to his support he wduld doubtless do so. They all liked The Sun. He was visibly affected as he recounted how so many people had voted for him as the most popular figure in Waikikamoo>ru. “Only in six cases did I have to use the life-preserver.” he said, “the sight of it was enongh for most of ’em.”

Sam admits that he is interested in winning the first prize house, bat was under the impression that the prize included a w ife to match.* Sam was very impressed with the parade of prize cars in Auckland recently. He was disappointed, however, not to see the rest of the prizes iu the procession. Sam says that someone should have driven the washing machine and sleeping porch down Queen Street as well as the motor-cars. He would have liked a ride in the sleeping porch. Miss Martha Finchley, in an interview, said that she

was surprised aril a little hurt that she had not been consulted when tlie list of prizes was compiled. Speaking in that simple way she has, which wins all hearts. Miss Finchley said that had The Son thought of consulting her she'd hate been pleased, for a

been pieaseo, tor a consideration, to have presented as first prize her magnificent collection of South American gully traps. As The Sun hadn't done so, they could well do without her aid. At any rate, she was so certain that she was going to win, that she was beginning to feel sorry for all the others. Sfce had already sold the newspaper serial, talkie and gramophone rights of h*r forthcoming book, “How I It on the Popularity Contest.” *Xote. This point perhaps needs further elucidation. The Sun cannot guarantee to sappo a wife as icell as the house for first prize. A graceful offer from Miss Martha Finchley iu this connection is under consideration, but as yet nothing has been definitely decided. On the other hand, it must be pointed out that should a bachelor win the first prize, we wouldn’t give twopence for his chances of remaining single. Frankly, w e could give him no hope. Young men are warned also aealrr too recklessly admiring the plans anu illustration of the house, while in company of their particular Fir friend. Should they do so. it is their own risk. Anything mig happen.

ination with tlie certain knnwledF, that the clinical work was l!1^ ONLOOKERA PLANT AT HUNTLY' I quite agree with “Jonas when he says it is foolish to money patching up Arapuni. J think anyone will ever have ence in it again. If this P la nt been built in or near Huntly it woi have cost no more, or perhaps K and there would be no large dams spillways to worry over. Fur therm • it would have meant employment io many who are out of work, ajid nao work for those already employed. Since Arapuni started the nimes round lluntlv have lost a lot of ra L which meant only one and days’ work some weeks, and no's* a puni lias gone off again the positio of the mines is improving. It is all right for farmers. * ne > want Arapuni. They onl -L,. " r ° about their machines, etc. They not think about the miners who laid off work nearly every day; so i hope before too much money is spen that the authorities will give the bull - ing of a plant in Huntly a little consideration. SHORTIMER NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENT T.S. (Newton). —\>p. ! North, on points, after each man had | secured a fall.— Ed. The Sun.