HISTORICAL COMPETITION POPULAR.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 124, 27 May 1936, Page 22

HISTORICAL COMPETITION POPULAR.

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owivil riiraLU) iin inn, uoi. The results of two popular competitions are announced in our Budget pages to-day. One is the painting competition, which is always a favourite. This was a hockey painting picture, that I think our boy readers must have thought was intended specially for girls, as very few;' entries came from boys. There was some very nice work submitted in this section, particularly from the older girls. Gloria Marslack and Joan Wilson are specially commended. All the pictures submitted this week were remarkably neat and carefully done. The main competition for this week, however, was the Historical Names, when Budgetites had to fit the original name to a description given. Some of these proved teasers. The Royal martyr is, of course, Charles 1., while John Bunyan was known as the Tinker of Bedford and Dr. Johnson as the Great Lexicographer. The Pathfinder was a real puzzler to many people and the majority of competitors gave him the name; of a hero from one of Ellis' books. The title, however, referred not to. a fictitious character, but to David Livingstone, one of the first men to open the way into Africa. The Blind Poet is the name by which Homer rather than Milton is known; nevertheless Milton was marked correct in the papers this week, as so few people seemed to know this point. Although the answers were carefully thought out, only one person, Beryl Moore, of Mount Eden, had the list completely right.