Airline bags prizes for touragram

Press, 26 February 1980, Page 21

Airline bags prizes for touragram

In keeping with the theme of today’s travel feature, “Gladiator” has based this touragram on Singapore. Readers are invited to test their knowledge by attempting to answer the following 20 questions. They will then be marked at random, the first five correct entrants receiving Singapore Air-

lines executive 747 cabin bags. ; All entries will be opened and the names of correct entries published on April 1. “The Press” will also award a special 810 cash prize for the neatest correct entry submitted by a schoolclass. 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 lo-

cated, the words should be ringed neatly with a ballpoint pen and. listed to correspond with the numbers 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 April 1.

Compiled by “Gladiator”

1— .Ancient Malay name for island at extremity of Malay Peninsula meant “sea town.” 2— Later, Sang Nila Utama founded a city named after a proud beast he thought inhabited the area—in English. 3— He called the city this as a Malay capital. 4— Englishman (good for a gamble?) with East India Company founded modem city in 1819. 5 — It was on a swamp and he leased it from the Sultan of a Malaysian state. 6— In 1826 it joined Penang and Malacca to form a narrow, limited settlement. 7— Admiral of the Fleet, with over 60 years association with Singapore, gave name to harbour and dockyard. 8— Island gained reputation as a commercial centre for an import and export industry known as this. 9— Between wars, Singapore became an important defence base, essentially this. 10— Singapore’s population is 76 per cent Chinese while this race makes up 15 per cent. 11— More famed as a prison than, a fine beach area. 12— Modem thoroughfare through old fruit farm is now “hotel mile.” 13— There’s arable pay dirt at international airport. 14— Gardens where the big felines have a soothing salve. 15— The only way to get around on three wheels in Singapore. 16— The island is renowned for its monocotyledonous plants. 17— Tasty morsel on a stick18— Singapore has several famous displays of nephrite. 19— Hill is island’s “mountain” with nark and restaurant. 20— Resort island is linked to Singapore by cable car.