CONUNDRUMS WANTED.
For the purpose of exercising the originality of our youngsters at the coming Christmas and New Tear parties, the Waterbury Watch Company will give one of their new watches to the boy and girl under sixty years of age who will send in the best original pun, joke, conundrum, charade or acrostic on the Waterbury watch to the Waterbury Watch Company, P.O. Box 199, Dunedin, not later than Jan. 7, ’92. Acrostics must not be any more abstruse than the third problem in Euclid, puns not more than ordinarily villainous, and any jokes submitted must be pungent enough to dawn on the average Scotchman within one weak from the period of administration. Any communications which do not come up to these standards will not be utilised, and if anything more than usually brilliant appears in our advertising everyone will have a chance of laying claim to it. The four veracious anglers who caught the plaster of Paris trout in “Three Men in a Boat,” will be nowhere with the people who will have contributed every smart thing that we may receive.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXVII, Issue 9646, 11 February 1892, Page 3
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183CONUNDRUMS WANTED. Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXVII, Issue 9646, 11 February 1892, Page 3
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