A dinkum 'Ocker-gram' to stone the crows

Press, 3 July 1979, Page 21

A dinkum 'Ocker-gram' to stone the crows

Compiled by

“Gladiator”

closer to huu»e uus munin with a touragram based on Australia. The contest will close on July 24 and no entries will be opened until after that date. ’They will then be marked at random, the

first six correct entrants receiving gift vouchers from Whitcoulls. “The Press” will also award a special $lO cash prize for the neatest correct entry submitted by a

school class. The words are hidden in the touragram in a random manner and may appear horizontally, vertically or diagonally.

They can be read from left to right, or from right to left, and up or 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 number of the clues. Entries should be addressed to Touragram, c/o Travel Editor, “The Press,” P.O. Box 1005, Christchurch. Results will be published in “Tuesday Travel” on August 7.

Last month’s contest on Europe attracted 200 entries, of which about half were correct.

Whitcoulls gift vouchers have been awarded to the following: Mrs C. Acheson. 9 Milnebank Street, Christchurch 4: Mrs C. E. T. Brownie, 4 R.D., Christchurch: M. I. Petrie. 447 flam Road, Christchurch 5;

J. M. Cropp, Tata Beach, No. 1 R.D., Takaka; J. R. Heslop, Brookside, R.D. Leeston; Bev and Dorn Manera, 155 Jollie Street, Hokitika. The prize for the best school entry is awarded to Room 7, Kaiapoi North School.

Last month's correct entries: Correct entries were received from: S. C. Anderson; S. E. Andrell; Mrs J. Austin (Greymouth); A. R. Batey (Greymouth); Mrs R. J Bell; Mrs E. Betro; Mrs S. L. Bowring (Kaikoura); B. Boyd; Mrs J. TI. Boyd (Kaikoura); E. F. Breeze (Ashburton); G. D. Broadhurst; G. Brownie (Nelson): M. T. Calvert; Mrs M. Campbell-Board (Blenheim): Mrs F. Cartmell; M. E. Caskey; G. E. Caves: Miss B. Cimino (Wellington): Kathleen Crabb; Crossman and Little (Ashburton); R. G. Currie; P. S. Dewar; J. E. Dixon (Hokitika): M. W. Duak; W. A. Dobson; Peter Dowling: Mrs F. Drake: R. Drake (Cost); Mr and Mrs R. L. Dronfield. Mrs M. Dryden; Mrs P. Faithfull: J. Fisher: Mrs B. A. Ford; J. P. Ford; Miss M. Fordyce; Forrest family (Greymouth); Mrs L. Giddings (Fairlie); D. L. Gifford; Mrs J. W. Greenhow; M. and IT. Hayes: N. Hayward; Dlrs L. M. Hight (Ashburton); J. Hinman; N. and R. Hinman; P. Hinman; 11. J. Houston (Hokitika): Miss C. Howell; K. J. Hughes; Mrs P. Jeffrey; P. D. Kilmartin; Mary Kotlowski; Mrs M. L. Lange (Twizei); Mr and Mrs I. Lawrence; Mrs D. Lee; Stephen Lowe (Hokitika);

1— Largest aboriginal reserve. 2— A certain par score in northern game area. 3— Iron ore for Japan departs from this western port. 4— No threat to diners in north-east. 5— Sea action by aircraft on this '42 battle stage. 6— One of the world’s major mineral ports is outstanding? 7— Tasmanian timber town is ferry terminus. 8— Connecting sea between Australia and New Guinea. 9— Mount Bruce is highest point on this ore-rich western feature. 10— Largest province in Victoria. 11— Here New Zealander Harry Evans found bauxite. 12— A long long wo! 13— Old but active western gold mine. 14— “Holey” highlights in tourist area were discovered in 1838. 15— Swan River home for Sicilian fishermen. 16— Sailor’s tot in the forest? 17— Big bone dig in old second ranking gold field, 18— Southern salt lake. 19— “White fellow live underground” chasing gem. 20— Silver hill in pieces. 21— Pretty Polly’s colourful granite range. 22— Decaying snug abode on island sanctuary for quakkas. 23— Miners gave copper town name to New Zealand resort. 24— Bacchus rules in South Australian valley. 25— Mainland centre for Barrier Island quartet. 26— Canine meeting place? 27— Here be found a girl’s best friend. 28— Yet another port. Inters cakes? 29— The pearly king sweeps clean? 30— Low, woody and verdant coral cay. 31— The chiefs wear cloth on the Gold Coast 32— “Red earth” causes dried fruit. 33— Singer in deep straits! 34— Indonesian sea border. 35— In 1970 this was the world’s biggest bauxite mine. 36— The biggest most colourful rock. 37— Bronchial harbour in need of soothing. 38— Macquarie farming centre. 39— Departure port for Green, Dunk and Bedarra. 40— Rich N.S.W. valley named after famous governor. Last month's solution: 1, Tyrrhenian; 2, Monte Carlo- 3, Torremolinos; 4. Kattegat; 5, Dunkirk; 6, Dalmatia; 7 Toledo8, Monaco; 9, Versailles; 10, Verdun; 11, Madrid; 12,' Trieste--13, Gulf of Taranto; 14, Pyrenees; IS. St Moritz; 16, Alicante; 17, Sardinia; 18, Douglas; 19, Sarajavo; 20. Barcelona; 21, Berlin; 22. Mons; 23, Baden Baden; 24, Vienna; 25, Skagerrak; 26, Turin; 27, Tirol; 28, Rochefort; 29, Corsica; 30, Odessa; 31, Instanbul; 32, Salzburg; 33, Ostend; 34. Albania; 35, Munich; 36, Le Mans; 37, Sicily; 38, Palermo; 39, Rhine; 40, lonian. Mr and Mrs J. R. Lute; L. M. Lyons (Blenheim); Brian Mackie family; Pamela Mackie; Janies Marris; Mrs M. F. Marsh; G. R. Matthews; M. I. and W. K. Mawson; Mrs W. Mazev; Mr and Mrs J. Macdonald; Betty McLean; Mrs A. 11. McKay;’ E. A. McPherson; Mrs N. McTaggart; Miss 11. Messervy (Dunedin); Mrs E. 11. Mounce; Donald Neale; Mrs B. O’Callaghan; Mrs V. Oram; F. M. Paulin; P. M. Purser; W. Purser (Wellington); Rakaia School Room 4; Mr and Mrs G. Register (Ashburton); Mrs A. D. Saunders; Adrian Scott; Sheila Scott (Westland); G. N. Sparrow; E. Thomas: G. JI. Townley (Tinwald); W. R. Tulloch (Blenheim); Alan Tunnicliffe; Sue Wagner; Mrs E. Walters; Mrs M. E. Wilson: Mrs N. Wilson; Mrs A. Young (Tinwald); Mrs P. M. McGrath; B. Phillips (Westport).

Travel on Tuesday again with “The Press' on August 7.