HOLIDAY TIME IS HERE

Radio Record, 9 December 1938, Page 47

HOLIDAY TIME IS HERE

Columbia Pictures’ Ideal Holiday Competition Will Soon Be. Closing-Have You Sent in Your. Entry? CHRISTMAS is right upon us, and so is heliday time. And.-if your summer holiday is still unplanned, you have our sympathy. Nothing is more calculated to try the temper than the preparation and equipping of a holiday at short notice. Those who have submitted essays for Columbia Pictures’ "Ideal Holiday" competition should be more fortunate. Perhaps they will not be able to spend that ideal holiday this summer, but quite likely, while they have been writing in idealistic vein about perfect holidays, they have been planning what they are really going to do. And, by the way, only a few more weeks remain before the competition closes, so send in your entry before it’s too late. The conditions are very simple, and anyone can enter.

BEFORE this week’s big batch of essays is considered an item of news. Arrangements have been completed regarding the hotel at which the winner will stay while he is spending his fortnight’s free holiday. If the winner resides in the North Island he will stay at the Ormidale Guest House, Rotorua. And if in the South Island, at a Jeading Tiamru hotel, the name of which will be announced later. There was a record number of entries this week, evidence that the competition is attracting inereased interest week by week. A pleasant surprise was an entry from Victoria, Australia. Mrs. HB. Clark, of Market Street, Trentham, Victoria, sent it, and she explains that, although she realises she is ineligible to compete against New Zealand entrants, when she read about the Holiday Essay Competition in the "Record" she felt compelled to put on paper just what She would do if she were offered a trip to New Zealand. Winning Essay HE standard of essays submitted this week was again very high. The preliminary prize goes to Miss Elva M. Reynolds, of 93 Hurstmere Road, Takapuna, Auckland, whose ideal holiday would consist of a leisurely camping holiday through ne kauri forests of North Auckand. Here is Miss Reynolds’s essay:The Waipoua Forest in North Auckland-what a land of enchantment! My ideal holiday is to be spent going slowly through the forest so as not to miss one glimpse of its beauty, . not one bird song nor one dancing stream. I shall set out from Dargaville on my bicycle weighed down by the minimum of camp-

ing gear. | shall pedal through the Kaihu valley but when I see anything which attracts me I shall leave my bicycle by the roadside and walk over fields or through bush or climb a hill for a glimpse of far horizons. A detour will take me to the Trounson Kauri Park where |! shall admire at my leisure thegiants which guard the entrance ---those kauris which always seem to me like ogres in a fairy tale who fain would deter the traveller from exploring the enchanted land beyond. | shall explore the Park undaunted, from the quaint kidney fern to the dainty rimu. When |! feel inclined I shall pedal on, push my steed up the hills over the Monganui Bluff where | shall stand and gaze at the sea. Pedalling on, at last I shall see before rne hill upon hill covered with dense forest and ! shall know that | am gazing at Waipoua. I shall enter the forest reverently as is only fitting in a great cathedral. 1 shall walk through the forest — thirteen miles of wonderland. 1! shall bathe in the cool streams and linger beside mossy slopes. Once again | shall stand amazed before those giant trees-the straight trunks and the massive crown of foliage that so rightly proclaim tne kauri the King of the Forest. The Forest Ranger will perhaps tell me some of the secrets of the trees, and advise where it is safe to wander from the beaten track-for in that maze of trees the unwary may easily be lost. My cycle will also take me through the beautiful valley of Waimamuku to the glorious blue of the ocean at Opononi, truly the Riviera of New Zealand. I! shall bathe in the water and sun. A launch will take me to the sandhills which | shall climb to the very top. I shall fie there in the sun‘shine and ponder on all that has been revealed to me of beauty in sea and sky, in hill and forest.

Holiday Essay . Competition FiERE is an opportunity to win a FREE two weeks’ holiday this summer. All you have to do is write an essay of approximately 250 to 500 words on your ideal holiday-how you would spend it, what you would do. CONDITIONS. 1. Fhere is no entrance fee and no limitation to the number of essays you may enter for the competition. 2. Essays must be written or typed on one side of the paper onty. 3. Preliminary prizes of 5/will be paid each week by Columbia Pictures Proprietary Ltd., for the best essay submitted each week. The grand prize of a free two weeks’ holiday will be awarded to the writer of what is Judged to be the best essay submitted during the competition. 4. First prize includes:(a) Return rail fare to Ti--maru and Caroline Bay if the ) winner resides in the South Island, or to Rotorua if the winner resides in the North island, and accommodation at a leading hotel. (b) A smart travelling case presented by Nash’s Leather Arcade, only address 133-135, Cuba Street, Wellington (ce) One new _- season’s | model "Cutie" bathing. suit by Lane, Walker, Rudkin. Ltd.,. manufacturers of "Canterbury" woollen goods. (d) A’ Slazenger "Match Point" racquet donated’ by Slazenger (Australia) Pty., Ltd., Sydney. (e) An Ensign Camera donated by H. E. Perry Ltd., N.Z. Distributors for Selochrome Fiims. :; (f) Fortnight’s free accom--modation at Armidale Guest House, Rotorua, or leading Timaru hotel, 5. Essays winning preliminary prizes will be published in the "Record" each week. 6. All essays must be posted to "Holiday Competition," c/o Columbia Pictures, P.O. "Box 180, Wellington.