A COMPETITION

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22317, 3 February 1938, Page 2 (Supplement)

A COMPETITION

For Girls and Boys of 16 Years and Under Prizes for Crosswords There will be tfro prizes each week for correct answers to the crossword puzzle on page 3. One prize will be for the first correct answer opened next Tuesday morning (this gives distant readers time to enter), and the other prize will be for the neatest correct answer received. All envelopes should be marked “crossword” so that they will be kept till Tuesday, when they will be put in a box, from which they will be drawn. Every correct entry has a chance of winning the prize. This seems a fair way of arranging the competition for readers who live close at hand and those who live far away. The first prize will be either a pocket knife or a set of embroidery threads or paint brushes, and the neatest prize a patent pencil. Write your solutions in columns on separate paper; do not send the puzzle itself. And write your choice of a prize with your name and address on the answ'er paper. Specimens of insects or plants are invited from readers. The conditions under which such specimens are found as well as the locality, should be clearly stated. It is necessary to state whether the specimen, if an insect, was dead or alive when it was found. Readers are invited to send questions on any subjects of interest to be answered in these columns. In future, no children’s contributions will be accepted unless they bear a statement from the head teacher of the school attended (or. during school holidays, from a parent) that to the best of his knowledge they are the unaided and original .work th* aAUA, n rr quiMiM n rl