Competitions Corner.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 58, 9 March 1935, Page 2 (Supplement)

Competitions Corner.

ANSWER THE DEFINITIONS

A novel competition has been •arranged for our readers to-day, and one that should not prove too puzzling even to cur younger readers. Each of the descriptions given in the list below can be answerd by one word, the letters of which are to be found in the word "chrysanthemums." For example, the answer to the first definition, "A musical part of the church service," is "anthem.

Number your answers carefully, arranging the words in a list, and send in to Peter Pan, care of the "Star" Office, Shortland Street, Auckland, before next Saturday. A riddle must accompany each entry to decide the winner in the event of more than one person submitting the correct list. Eight prizes of 2/6 will be awarded to those whose lists are correct.

1. A musical part of the church service. 2. Another name for I hypocrisy. 3. To hurry. 4. An organ lof the human body. 5. A city of i Greece. 6. A drink beloved by ! sailors. 7. Abbreviated Christian ■ name for a man. 8. What none wish to have, most get, and few take. 9. : A pet name for our nearest relative. ! 10. A technical term applied in dress- ; making. 11. What we like our critics to remember we nre. 12. What all actresses aspire to be. 13. A word I meaning "to assemble together." 14. ! A fable. IS. That to -which we are i closer in country than in city. 16. What we should display towards offenders in our power. 17. What Ino emolcer likes to be without and : some folk try to make. 18. The sort of house often found in the backblocks. 19. Close pals. 20. A herb used in the kitchen. 21. A bird. 22. A particularly private study. 23. To i punish. 24. A map. 25. To provide f ] in the sense of purveying.