LAST WEEK'S COMPETITION

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 68, 29 September 1939, Page 6

LAST WEEK'S COMPETITION

MATCH PUZZLE No. 4 The Answer.

The question was: For.m 8 squares with 22 matched as shown in the diagram. Now see if you can remove G so as to leave 4 squares. Twenty-five replies this week-end and a good third of them wrong. Try again next time my young friends* However there were fifteen corm^*and poor Old Peter ha* '* ' ? 1 tnc ol Sorting out tile winners. Well here they ate: Third Mate Tom Maxwell Midshipmaid Jocelyn Wilsorn Engineer Don Howat. Others who had the correct solution and missed on marks for neatness were, Noelle McGougan Jan"r ett c McLeod, Sylvia Sims, John Taylor, TJettic Chalmers, "Maureen Ward G. Moore_ Keith Linsell, Des Brockett, Jean Howat, Reg Parry. Audrey Butler.

JUNIOR COMPETITION "SUPPLY THE MISSING LINE'' Oh, ves Mr Grocer, ' *■ ><f * We'll have some spaghetti A packet of raisins, Some rusks for wee Belly. A small tin of salmon, Some raspberry jam,, What! You haven't got bacon? Here are the winners: Patricia Sims "Then I'll have some ham." Alan Taylor "Well I r II have some nice ham." THIS WEEK'S COMPETITION MATCH PUZZLE No. 5. Arrange 27 matches to form ten squares as in the diagram. Now see if A'ou can remove six matches so as to leave s!ix squares each the same size as the original ones.

When you have done it make a diagram out showing the solution and send it in to P.T.W. Don't fell your friends and the first three ivill receive free picture tickets. The answer will appear in next Friday's paper. Try it and see how clever you are! MY MAIL BOX Dear Peter the Whaler^ I wish to become a member oT the Good Endeavour League. I am '.ending in thi.s week's solution, and enclose threepence in stamps. Bet tie Chalmers. Can you hear me lass! Hi there? We're at Hawaii in Pearl Harbour. Catch the Clipper and meet us hei".\ I'll reserve your bunk. Your certificate has been po<te*l. P.T.W.

"OH DOCTOR'' Sent in by Midshipman Charlie Aniie;', Everything jibout me had something wrong with j so I sent for the doctor, who came instantly. First we went into the garden, and [he doctor said that the celery had a headache, the lettuce had a bat! hearty and the carrots had scarlet fever, the potatoes, had soi'e eyes, the tomatoes looked a bit seedy and the apples had the pip.

We came in door and discovered that the doors had lockjaw, and the stairs were badly run, down i the windows had a bad pain, the stove was n a burning fever ? and the icechest had a nasty chill. The kettle had hoils, and the bellows had sciatica. Of course, no one could be cured, •;o the doctor went home.