BIG BROTHER BILL and the BAIRNS

Evening Star, Issue 23325, 22 July 1939, Page 8

BIG BROTHER BILL and the BAIRNS

GENIUS THINKS THINGS. BUT LABOUR DOES THEM

The winner of the competition published Saturday, July 22, was Barbara Austin, 14 Grant street, Dunedin, C.2. Congratulations. Prize will be posted.

THE GOMPETITON

Do you know the countries represented" by these little maps? " The names 1 given on each should help ybu identify them. Having found the names of the countries, the next step is to say which of the pictures belong to each. Then write down your answer as follows:—sA, India. Send your answers to Big Brother Bill, care of ‘ Evening Star,’ Stuart street, Dunedin, C.l. Mark the envelope “Competition*”

THE POSTiE S BAG

88 Surrey street' Caversham. Dear Big Brother Bill, —I have often intended to write to your page, but somehow 1 have not done so before this., 1 enjoy reading other children’s letters in. the ‘Star.’ I am 11 years old and am in Form 1. at St. Clair School. Next year I will be at Macandrew Road School, which is to be an intermediate school. My father has a fruit shop, and I help him on Fridays after school and Saturdays to deliver orders in the truck. 1 play Rugby at school and always go to Carisbrook on Saturday afternoons. Can you tell me which team will win the Ranfurly Shield this year? I hope Otago does. Here is my selection:—Full-back, R. Silver; three-quarters—Steele. Perriam, Churchill; five-eighths, O. Gilles, T. Berghan; half-back, Simpson; forwards—Mahoney, Wall, Graham, Parkhill, Vorrath, Slyfield, Walker, Niven, or Neiper. I am hoping to go to In-