CLOSE OF THE EASTER COMPETITION.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 89, 16 April 1927, Page 2 (Supplement)

CLOSE OF THE EASTER COMPETITION.

READ THE INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY. Peter Pan's letter to-day will give you all the final instructions and hints concerning the competition. Thoughtful competitors and those wishing to expand their chances of success will read those instructions carefully. Several alterations and amendments are published there for the first time, and competitors are advised to carefully read all that the letter contains. RULES GOVERNING THE COMPETITION. 1. No boy or girl connected either directly or indirectly with the staff of the "Auckland Star" or the "Christchurch Star" will be allowed to compete. 2. With the exceptions provided for in Rule I this competition is open to all children throughout New Zealand, providing they are under IS years of age. 3. Every entry must be accompanied by the four numbered coupons, one of which will appear with each of the four sections of the competition. Without these four numbered coupons no entry will be received. .$ 4. You can send in as many attempts as you wish, provided each effort is accompanied by the coupons, as provided in Rule 3, but it is understood that not more than one prize can be awarded to any one household. 5. All entries must be in ink or ink-pencil. 6. Alterations will be counted as errors. 7. Every sheet of paper must bear your full name, age and address. Write on one side of the paper only. 8. Commence the answers to each question on a fresh sheet of paper. 9. When sending your work to this office pin each section together separately, and arrange the questions in their correct order. 10. No work is to be sent in until the close of the competition, when everything is to be sent in one covering envelope. 11. Failure to observe these rules will render your work liable for disqualification, and entries are received from competitors on the understanding that the judge's decision is final and legally binding. No correspondence will be entered into on the subject. SUMMARISED RULES AND ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS. SECTION I. QUESTION I.—All words must me sorted into strict alphabetical order. The number of objects found must be written at the top of the first sheet. QUESTION 4.—Make a copy of the drawing appearing in the paper and fill in the squares. This also applies to Question 2. Section 3. SECTION 11. QUESTION I.—All words must be arranged in strict alphabetical order. The number of words built must be clearly stated at the top of the first sheet. QUESTION 3.—With one exception all the hidden trees are in the singular. This-accounts for the "S" in Square No. 11. SECTION HI. QUESTION I.—ln your answer it is necessary to give only the three words found. Do not show the steps by which it was found. SECTION IV. QUESTION I.—Merely state the old saying. It is necessary to show how you arrived at the sentence. SECTION IV. QUESTION 1. —In the picture below you will see eight small drawings, beneath each of which appear several numbers. This competition is similar to Question 2 of the second section, the only difference being, that the words are represented pictorially instead of being defined. Every small drawing can be described by one word. Having discovered these words the numbers beneath the drawings give you the positions of those letters in a new sentence, which is an old saying consisting of 45 letters making nine words. QUESTION 2.-j-Below appears a letter written in code. The following hints will help you in the solving. The letter E is used most often. The letters K and W are used only once and V twice. The thirteenth word is "Solution." 20,8, 14, 5. 8,20,17,16,12,5, 16,19,17,6, 13,1,10,10,2,8, 17,6, 11,12,6,16, 17,15,16,8,5,8,6,16,17,15,18, 14,15,20, 17, 14,11, 19,12,13,17,15,18, 11,21, 6,12,2,1,16,17,12,15, 17,6, 22,12,5,5,8,22,16, 16,19,8, 22,12 v 11,13,8,;6,17,16,17,12,15,6, 23,12,5, 21,12,1,15,18, 23,12,2,7,6, 18,17,4,8, 5,8,14,20,8,5,6, 11,14,15,21, 22,19,14,15,22,8,6, 12,23, 9,17,15,15,17,15,18, 13,5,17,10,8,6, 21,12,1,5,6, 19,12,13,8,23,1,2,2,21, 14, 224241.13,8,16,17,16,12,5. QUESTION 3.—When suitably reduced to their simplest terms you will recognise in the following phrases well-known sayings, (jan you solve them! 1. Ornithological specimens of identical plumage usually congregate in the closest possible proximity. 2. Even the most exquisite efforts of a refined phraseology, in all probability, would fail to clothe with any oleaginous beauty the common vegetable usually known to botanists as P.sativa. 3. The architectural completion of the capital of the Italian Peninsula was not accomplished within the period of one revolution of the planet we inhabit. 4. Supposing that transparently be your mansion, » Of atoms made that shatter at a shock, When practising your muscular expansion, Never project disintricated rock. 5. An inflection of the covering of the optic lens is equivalent to an inclination of the cranium to an equine quadruped suffering from a cataract. QUESTION 4.—An example of word changing was given in the first section. Below appear five more words which are to be changed according to the directions given:— Change Boat into Ship—s intervening links. „ Sink „ Rise—3 intervening links. „ Silk „ Lace—s intervening links. „ Rice „ Salt —5 intervening links. „ Give „ Take—4 intervening links. QUESTION s.—Can you solve the following arithmetical problem? John, William, and James are three brothers. Their united ages arc AT. James is three years younger than William, and William is five years younger than John. How old are they!