CONUNDRUMS WANTED\ U
r — I §g§ For the purpose of exercising the oriai KS ality of our youngsters at the comik; S g|j Christmas and ]Slew Year parties, tfc M Waterbury Watch Company will give o| |j| of their new watches to the boy and git |j| under 60 years of age who will send in tb |fl best original pun, joke, conundrum, charad » or acrostic on the Waterbury Watch to tb: b| Waterbury Watch Company, P.O. Box IS9, ft| Dunedin, nob later than 7th January, '?-■ || Acrostics must not be any more abstruse) m than the third problem in Euclid, puns not 1 g more than ordinarily villainous, and any | feg jokes submitted must be pungent enongi i g to dawn on the average Scotchman withic ||g; one week from the period of administration- ® Any communications which do not co® 3 || up to these standards will not be utilise, || and if anything more than usually brills? g appears in our advertising, everyone »> g|| have a chance of laying claim to it. S four voracious anglers who caught tfl m plaster of Paris trout in " Three Men in |s Boat" will be nowhere with the people g will have contributed anonymously e fer ? gj smart thing that we may receive. '■&
THE WATERBURY PUZZLE, H
In a little over four years, 84,790 W at® p|H bury Watches have been sold in New Zea y-J land, the entire population of which W33, . .1 at last census, 626,359 souls. ■ If 626,359 people buy 81,790 Wat®* §■ bdrys in four years, how many will they JjM buy during 1892 ? II A new Golden Waterbcry will go tc the M person who hands in the most approxi® ata ■ fll estimate to any of our recognised ago o *- 13 My Christmas Day. Kj
THE NEW WATER IB ARRIVED. B
Solid Silver Jewelled Movement £2 - Golden Jewelled Movement — 0 |S Golden Ladies', Jewelled... - " ft 9 Nickel Milled Edge, Jowelled ... 1 § 9 Nickel J Short Wind, Favourite... 1 - paHj Nickel L Ladies', Favourite ••• * " |^fl Nickel E Long Wind Pioneer ... ® * IflH See fchab all Watereukys have VV-W-C.®**
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 8784, 26 January 1892, Page 6
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