New bonus prize for schools

Press, 7 September 1976, Page 30

New bonus prize for schools

Tou.a g r a m fever appears to be spreading as entries continue to pour in from all over the South Island. Several entries have been received from Wellington and other North Island districts, with one from as far afield as Brisbane. An encouraging feature of the contest is the steadily increasing number of entries submitted as class projects by schools. In recognition of this work, “The Press” will from today award $lO for the purchase of books to the class which submits the neatest, correct entry. Whitcoulls, Ltd, will also award $6 gift vouchers for the first six entries opened from readers. Three of these awards will be held for entries from outlying districts. The vouchers will entitle the recipients to books, records, gifts, or any other product stocked by Whitcoulls to the value of $6. Answers and winners will be revealed in the' October 5 issue of “Tuesday Travel.” Today we present Touragram No. 9 — a test of global knowledge — together with the names of the winners of $6 Whitcoull’s gift vouchers in both the August 3 global and August 24 New Zealand touragrams. The prize list, plus the names of all those who submitted correct entries, appears with the answers elsewhere on this page In the global contest, hundreds of entrants were caught by Clue 12, answering only “Man” instead of the “Isle of Man.” In the New Zealand touragram, the most frequent mistakes appeared in Clues 9 (“Wigley”) and 21 (“Picton”). Many entries also failed because of simple spelling mistakes — Rongatai for Rongotai; Aoteoroa for Aotearoa; Rangatoto for Rangitoto; Motonau for Motunau; Newmann for Newman; and Foveau instead of Foveaux.

Apart from the “dirty trick” (as one entrant described it when gremlins scrambled a row of letters in the August 3 grid) the correct spelling of the answers can be found in the grids. So please take care in typing or writing your answers. The words are hidden in a random manner and may appear horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. They can be read from left to right, or from right to left, or up and down. Some letters may be common to two or more words. Each word has a corresponding clue. When located, the words should be ringed neatly with a ballpoint pen and listed to correspond with the numbers of the clues. Please do not write the answers alongside the clues on the newspaper clipping — they must be numbered and on a separate sheet of paper. Entries should be posted to the Travel Editor, “The Press,” P.O. Box 1005, Christchurch. Congratulations to these winners of Whitcoulls’ $6 gift vouchers:— Global touragram W. J. McEwan, 1398 England Street, Christchurch; Nora Flowers, 58 Simeon Street, Christchurch; Mrs Judith

McKendry, P. O. Box 13, Amberley; D. Moloney, 83 Romilly Street, Westport; R. Fowler, Ruby Bay, Nelson; Burrows Family, 16 Suffolk Street, Ashburton. New Zealand touragram Mrs O. Berry, 85 Bowhill Road, Christchurch; Sarah Larnder, 15 Garden Road, Christchurch; Mrs G. M. Goodall. 314 Avonhead Road, Christchurch; Miss J. King, P. O. Box 122, Hokitika; N. J. Aitken, 66 Scott Street, Blenheim; Mrs R. R. Cochrane, 2 Allen Street, Methven.

(Compiled by GLADIATOR) 1— In 1756 a black hole brought infamy. 2— Pacific resort south of the border. 3— Bogota is the capital of this wealthy Republic. 4— New Zealand west coast city port. 5— Less verdant than one would expect. 6— Long and wide between the old and new. 7— “Muddy river mouth” translates to wealthy eastern capital. 8— “Great grey-green, greasy, and all set about with fever trees.” 9— To the west across the Strait of Otranto lies Italy. 10— One of the world’s great waterways. 11— Polo at L.A.? No, nearer San Francisco and where the first battle of the United States-Mexican war was fought in 1846. 12— Bailey revisits Benghazi? 13— A Latin boot? 14— Let seat alter in Washington. 15— Was this dance once popular in island capital? 16— Portuguese archipelago in Atlantic where Sir Richard Grenville and the “little” Revenge sheltered. 17— Salisbury Plains entertainment centre for Celtic priests? 18— Active volcanoes help thaw this frozen (?) island. 19— Famed in spy thrillers as banishment area of salt mines. 29—Here are made fine Iberian blades. 21— Sought-after cheroots from this Caribbean island capital. 22— Misty heights in Devon well known for penal institution. 23— Tea parties and iced buns tn New England city. 24— An obvious place to moor up the cold Cook inlet. 25— Chalky channel ramparts face Calais. 26— Texas claims biggest sandal last in the world. 27— A country divided by armistice at the 38th parallel. 28— Rose lived in this Mexican town near California? 29— Caribbean island capital one-time centre of buccaneering activities. 30— Egypt's stone-hearted lien at Giza. 31— Ferdinand found a strait Cape by-pass in 1520. 32— The George Cross island. 33— Malaysian state and name of strait dividing peninsula from Singapore. 34— Host country to the 1912 Olympic Games. 35— They should all be literate in this Berkshire borough, it would appear. 36— Southern tin of Balkan Peninsula. 37— Capital was Constantinople, but country unchanged. 38— State oration over Canadian lake. 39— Andean capital of Ecuador on Equator. 40— Did Mr G. Khan sally forth from this land between China and Clue 19?