TODAY’S COMPETITION

Northern Advocate, 10 July 1935, Page 4

TODAY’S COMPETITION

SUPPLY THE TITLE. AN EASY CONTEST. Here is an easy contest for Young Northlanders. Below is printed a joke and all you are required to do is supply a title to this. , Once you have thought out the best title possible, write it on a sheet of paper, to Which is attached your name, address and age, and post your entry in order to reach Kupe, c/o. “Advocate” Office, Water Street, Whangarei, hot later than Wednesday next. Book prizes, will reward the lucky winners, with certificates of merit for runners-up. ' Bill Fox may y well be called the champion optimists. He was sitting on the roof of his hduse during a flood, watching the water flow past, when the neighbour who owned a boat rowed across to him. “Hello, Bill!” said the man. “Hello, Sam!” replied Bill, pleasantly. “All your fowls washed away this morning?”, “Yes, but the ducks can swim.” “Orange trees gone, too?” “Yes, but everybody said the crop would be a failure, anyhow.” “I see the river’s reached above your windows, Bill.” “That’s all right, Sam,” was the reply, “Them windows needed washinV’