CONUNDRUMS WANTED.
FOR the purpose of exercising the originality of our youngsters at the coming Christmas and New Year paroiea, fche jVVaberbnry Watch Company will give one Df their new watchoa to the boy and girl under 60.-years of age who will send in the beab original pun, joke, conundrum, charade or acrostic on the Waterbury (Watch bo -the Waterbury Watch Company," P.O. Box 199, Dunedin, not later than 7th January, '92. Acrostics must) noD be any more abstruse than the third problem, in Euclid, puna nob more than ordinarily villainous, and any jokes submitted musb be pungenb enough to dawn on the average Scotchman wibhm One week from the period of administration. Any communications which do nob come up to bhase standards will nob be utilised, and if anybhing 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 paria trout in " Three Men in a Boat " will be nowhere with the people who Will have contributed anonymously evary tjiing that we may receive.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 307, 29 December 1891, Page 3
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182CONUNDRUMS WANTED. Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 307, 29 December 1891, Page 3
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