WORD BUILDING COMPETITION.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 174, 25 July 1928, Page 20

WORD BUILDING COMPETITION.

VERY HEAVY ENTRIES

GOOD WORK DONE

Dear Beys and Girls, — For two days now I have been p'oring over a big red dictionary correcting Tast week's word building competition. Entries were again very heavy, and at first I feared that I would have to appeal for kelp, but somehow 7 managed to get the results through in time; perhaps it was because the entries were very good, and did not have many'mistakes. Why, the winner, Enid Smith, of 9, Calgary Street, Edendale, aged 14, had only 18 mistakes. Her origuud - list of 397 words, after the usual severe checking, was only reduced to 379 allowable words. The second prize winner, Emmie Davidson, was, however, an exception, and her original list of 542 words was reduced to 352; which, by the way, would be something quite good in an average word building competition. K. Johnson, who carried off third prize, had 339 allowable words on his list, whilst Zoe Court, the foremost of the half-crown prize winners, was credited with 312 words correct. The other entries are arranged in order of merit. What is the best joke you know ? Is it the one about Pat, or the one about the Jewish moneylender and the Scotchman? I wonder! Whatever it is, send it in to this office »»m m 0 before Wednesday next, and ( L/ [2 perhaps you'll win one of the prises V^VT offered in "Our Competition" Corner."