CONUNDRUMS WANTED.
For the purpose of exercising the originality of Su/youngstiers at the f pm.«g Christmas and New Year, parti", the Waterbury Watcht Company ytm give one ol their new watches the boy and girl under sixty years of age who wUi een* in the pun, joke, conundrqm, charaite or acrostic on the watS to the Waterbary Watch Company, PO Box 199, Dunedin, not later than 7th JanuaJy, "92. Acrostics must not be any mbrea&truse than the third problem in Euclid puna not more than ordinarily villainous, anA any jokes submitted must be pungent enough to dawn on the average Scotchman within one week from the period qf'administration. Any communications which do not come up to these standards willnat be utilised, and if anything more than usually brilliant appears in our advertising everyone will havma ckance of laying .claim to ifc.j The four veracious anglers who caught the plaster of Part* trout in" Three Men in a Boat '* will be nowhere with the people who will have contributed every smart thing thaC we may receive. '".,'"... »
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Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 8071, 14 January 1892, Page 2
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175CONUNDRUMS WANTED. Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 8071, 14 January 1892, Page 2
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