CONUNDRUMS WANTED.
For the purpose of exercising the originality of our youngsters at the coming Christmas and New Year parties, the, Waterbury Watch Company will give one of their new watches to the boy and girl under 60 years of age who will send in the best original pun, joke, conundrum, charade or acrostic on the Waterbury Watch to the Waterbury Watch Company, P.O. Bos 199, Dunedin, not later than 7th January, '92. Acrostics must not be any more abstruse than the third problem in Euclid, puns nob more than ordinarily villainous, and any jokes submitted must be pungent enough to dawn on the average Scotchman within one week from the period of administration. Any communications which do not coita up to these standards will not be utilised «S.nd if anything more than usually brilliant appears in our advertising, everyone will have a chance of laying claim to it. The four veracious anglers who caught the plaster of paris trout in " Three Men in a Boat" will be nowhere with the people who will have contributed anonymously every smart thing that we may receive.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 305, 24 December 1891, Page 2
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184CONUNDRUMS WANTED. Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 305, 24 December 1891, Page 2
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