A VERY SUCCESSFUL COMPETITION.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 258, 31 October 1928, Page 18

A VERY SUCCESSFUL COMPETITION.

MANY CLEVER TRICKS. AN INTERESTING PROBLEM FOR THIS WEEK. Dear Boy* and Girls,— I've just finished judging the trick competition, and now I feel that I could be quite a successful conjurer. Jim Frankham, who won the first prize, fully deserves his award, for the trick, if done properly, will cause much astonishment to people "not in the know." Jack Rowntree's trick was of a different nature, and was very good, too. With merely three lines you must separate the nine black cats in the circle in order to prevent a fight. 1 wish someone could separate the nine tom-cats that have their boxing lessons outside my window at 12 o'clock each night! For the amateur conjurer, Noel Hewitt's trick is excellent, for it is not hard to perform, yet, as the writer says, "Will bring down the house." The fourth prize was awarded to Ailsa Hutchinson, who describes a simple way of making a coin jump into a purse, without anyone having to touch it. In her entry Ailsa definitely stated a penny, but 1 found that a penny was a little too heavy, and, although it worked sometimes, it often failed. I performed the trick with a threepenny piece, and was delighted with the result, so m the published account gave a threepenny piece instead of a penny. • , wer ,? man y other good tricks sent In which may be published in the "Budget" later on. This week's competition takes you back to the days of the war, when the British flying squadron played such an important part in the defending of the Motherland. Ed. Russell and Jim Blair, British airmen whom you will know when you have read the story under the heading of "This Week's Competition, run their noses into danger. The story ends with tins two in a hopeless predicament, and your job is to rescue them; not actually rescue them, but complete the tale ' describing how the heroes got the better of the enemy, and reported f\j at headquarters a week later, minus f their machine. For further particu- : #r lars see "Our Competition Corner." & Ckt ft*