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Each week a five-point mark card U .warded to the sender o 1 the best set 1f not more than six schoolboy ["his week the card goes to Isobji ramieson for the following:— Who built St. Paul's Cathedral? Christopher Robin. - - •• i-V *! What good did Richard Wliittington lo for the people of London? He sold lis fat. ■ Why 'was the fire of London a good liing for the people? It kept them vann. - * Why are high posts used for electric vires? So that the people's heads s ,won'tr jecomo tangled up. V\x Other good ones sent In were:-- - 1 '• Gum Arabic is what an Arabian child speaks before it cuts its teeth. A rooster is a father hen. A split infinitive means a crack of'' loom. ' ' » Contralto is a low sort of music that, mly ladies sing. Herrings go about in shawls. Indians wear turbines on their headsf Pas des deux means the father of :wins. *■"* - 5 >()<===>C)-C^O<==»(><=»(k^O<±^v
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23115, 13 August 1938, Page 8 (Supplement)
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159CLASSROOM CORNER New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23115, 13 August 1938, Page 8 (Supplement)
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