Answers to Sharpeners.

Southland Times, Issue 23380, 11 December 1937, Page 7 (Supplement)

Answers to Sharpeners.

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE 1. December 26. 2. (1) Write in ink on one side of the paper only. (2) There must be separate sheets for each entry. (3) At the foot of your work write your age, degree, name and address. (4) Each cousin must work unaided and mark his or her work “original” or “my own work.” (5) No one more than sixteen years of age may enter for the competitions unless otherwise stated. (6) Remember that spelling, neatness and punctuation will be taken into account. (7) All entries must be sent in by the closing date as set. 3. Lord Nelson.

4. Frozen meat, wool, cheese, butter, hides, tallow, flax, condensed milk, timber, coal, sugar of milk. (20 marks) WHAT ARE THEY? 1. An aurist. • ■ ' - 2. A boom. . 3. Chirology. (6 marks) JUMBLED BIRDS sparrow, tomtit, blackbird, kingfisher, linnet. (6 marks) CHANGE THE LETTERS 1. fort, fork, form. 2. burrow, borrow, barrow. 3. pimple, simple, dimple. 4. hence, fence, pence. (8 marks)

• RESULTS Cousin Helen Dalgarno 40 .Cousin Wilma Mo watt 40 Cousin Betty Grace 40 Cousin Dorothy Stevens 39 Cousin Raynor Huffadine 39 Cousin Margaret Cochrane 39 Cousin Iris Mincher 39 Cousin Eunice Sleeman 39 Cousin Jeanette Moore 39 Cousin Margery Wilson 39 Cousin Wallace Baillie 37 Cousin Annie McKenzie ,37 Cousin Jean McKenzie 37 Cousin Edmund Maloney 37 Cousin Margaret Hyndman 37 Cousin Bessie Hamilton 37 Cousin Daphne Shields 37 Cousin Flora Macdonald 35 Cousin Campbell Macdonald 35 Cousin Evelyn Andrews 35 Cousin Doreen Warnock 30 Cousin June Horton 26