RAILWAY TOWNS PROVE PUZZLERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 136, 10 June 1936, Page 20

RAILWAY TOWNS PROVE PUZZLERS.

STANDARD OF WORK DISAPPOINTING. This week's competition was quite simple and it is remarkable that so few competitors actually had the list correct. All that Budgetites were required to do was to take the names of the objects in the pictures and join them together, thus making the name of a town in New Zealand. In most cases this was a very easy matter, as in No. 2, Picton, but one or two of the little pictures proved teasers. For instance the last number was Pukekche, the little picture illustrating a hill (puke in Maori) and kchekche berries, with one "kohe" cut out. Number 5, the picture of a car and the lower part of a face, seemed to puzzle some people. A few Budgetites, however, noticed that the face was adorned with 'a * small moustache, and the name of the town was therefore Kamo. The complete list of towns is as follow:— 1. Mercer 4. Featherston 2. Picton 5. Kamo 3. Buller 6. Pukekohe The entries for the competition were disappointing, and, in fact, . the standard of the work received was such that the judges decided to award only a limited number of certificates. Competitors will see, therefore, that apart from the actual cash prizes only twenty pink certificates have been awarded.