Popularity Campaign

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1004, 21 June 1930, Page 14

Popularity Campaign

Office Flooded With Contestants NEW BONUS OFFER ANNOUNCED No List Today

The rush of contestants to the Campaign Department today has been phenomenal. Every minute of time until the closing hour, contest-1 ants were crowding at the counter,! overflowing into the Campaign Manager’s office, and talking to the Gam- | paign representatives, all eager to get in their subscriptions on the great bonus offer which closed today. Many contestants made up their £lO total, while others made up two or three. Each was putting forth his utmost effort to bring in every subscriber possible to get the big votes. NEW BONUS OFFER Beginning on Monday, a new period opens in The Sun’s Great Popularity Campaign. During this period, which ends at J p.tn. oil Saturday, July 5, a special bonus offer of 400,000 extra votes will be given for each total of £lO in subscription money brought in by a contestant. This will l>e undoubtedly the most interesting period of the competition, and for the contestants it. will be more productive of results than the period just concluded. This is due to the fact that everyone in the Auckland province Is watch-j ing the race "and waiting for an ! opportunity to help contestants to win one of the prizes. Many of the contestants during the last period made one £lO, and had subscription money left over. All balances left over from subscriptions in the last period will count right on in this period. For instance, if a contestant turned in £l2 in subscription money during the last period, he will have his first 500,000 bonus, and the £2 left over will be carried on to count in this period. If he turns in £8 more in subscription money this period he will make up a total of £lO, aud receive the 400,000 special bonus ballot which is offered during this period. Contestants should now begin their drive all over again. Each one should try to be the first to get one of the 400,000 bonus ballots. Contestants will realise now the importance of these bonus ballots, and what they mean in winning a big prize at the finish. HAVE PATIENCE On account of the great rush of business during the last two days, the Campaign Manager requests the contestants and the subscribers to bear with us for a little time until we catch up and are able to handle the great volume of business over the i week-end. There will be A delay in the subscribers getting their papers. Subscribers should not expect their paper before Tuesday or Wednesday of next week, as it will take that length of time for the office staff to register and enter the subscriptions. Contestants should not expect their vote ballots before the same time. No j list of standings is published today, as i the Campaign Department was unable ! to handle the great volume of business | and still make the count of votes. The next count of votes will be In Tuesday’s paper and will include all 50 vote coupons turned in up until Saturday noon, aud only such subscriptions as were turned in up to Friday night. Subscriptions which were turned in on Saturday and which were posted will not appear in Tuesday’s paper as it will be impossible for the Campaign Department to get the votes issued in time. GET SUBSCRIPTIONS Subscriptions when received should be handed into the Campaign Office at once. Nothing is gained by holding them back. As soon as you hand in the money you receive a credit ballot given for the certain number of votes to which your subscription entitles you, and this you are entitled to hold as long as you please, but if you hold your subscriptions the subscriber will wonder why you are holding it and why his paper is not delivered, and may complain about it. Never give a subscriber cause for complaint, be-

cause the complaint may reach the ear j of someone to whom later you may apply for a subscription. NAMES DROPPED lu older to reduce the list of con- j testants down to the list of actual | workers the names of all contestants J who have not actually turned in subscription money up to today will he dropped from the list in the next published count. The list will then include only contestants who are actually getting votes from subscriptions. Any contestant whose name is dropped from the list, and who iater turns in subscription money may be j reinstated again with his full votes, I but his name will not apjjear until he j has actually turned in subscription I money. J PRIZE EXHIBITION OPENS MONDAY The big show of prizes to be given in The Sun’s competition will be made in the Queen’s Arcade, opening Monday. Several shops in the QUEEN’S ARCADE are being tastefully decorated, and ail the prizes are being exhibited. Several of the firms who are offering prizes are making an actual demonstration of the prize. All the prizes will be on display. Everyone interested should call at the Queen’s Arcade and see these magnificent prizes. One of the prize motor-cars will be placed lu the lobby. The campaign manager cordially invites all the contestants to come in and see the prize they are going to win. CHECKING RECORDS lii order to ensure absolute accuracy j in the Campaign Department, a special Dalton adding machine, furnished by Messrs. Armstrong aud Springhali, Limited, Dalton Agents, is being used by the. Campaign Department. The large amount of subscriptions and votes to he tallied makes the use of this adding machine a very essential factor in this competition. AN AUCKLAND CONTESTANT

“Here’s another one for the Buick. and I’m going to get a lot more. I find subscription-getting easy, and I am having a lot of fun out of The Sun’s competition. It is the Buick I want, and if it takes subscriptions and votes to get it I’m surely going to be the one to get the subscriptions.” This is what Mr. Stubbing said to a campaign representative when he called the other day, aud * found Mr. Stubbing closing a pros-j pect and writing up a subscription for j The Sun. Mr. Stubbing is an enthu-i siastic. contestant, and he transmits his enthusiasm to every prospective Sun reader whom he meets. He is j out hard for the prize, and he says if ■ plugging will get it he is going to ; do the plugging.