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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue LXXI, 14 September 1940, Page 5 (Supplement)

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(Questions on Page 2.) 1. The Pan-American Clippers flying to New Zealand call at Canton Island, a strange coral island, on the way from Hawaii to Auckland. Its lagoon is ideal for flying-boat landings and take-offs. Both Britain and U.S.A. claim the island, and have agreed that each nation shall have equal facilities for international aviation and communication. 2. Introduced in Oslo as a free breakfast for poor children, has been praised by health authorities. It consists of wholemeal 'bread, butter, cheese, half a pint of milk, half an orange, half an \pple or carrot. 3. Member of the middle cSass.

4. A sailor's knot. 5. Education of the two eexes together. 6. A winged horse on which Mohammed in a vision ascended to heaven. 7. English executioner (died 1686), who gave the nickname for nearly two centuries to his successors in the job of public hangman. 8. Mr. John Cudahy, U.S. Ambassador to Belguim, was conspicuous in the news a short while ago on the question of American food for Belgium. 9. The English Monarch. 10. As a painter's handrest. 11. A pleasant fellow. 12. A dressing' gown. 13. Twenty-four grains. 14. Courtiers in "Hamlet."' 15. Quaker*.