TINE’S CROSSWORD PUZZLE.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 November 1933, Page 9 (Supplement)

TINE’S CROSSWORD PUZZLE.

Solution to last week’s puzzle:— ACROSS. 1, It goes with a lock (Key). 3, Possesses (Has). 6, Small horse (Pony). -B*. Carpenter tells you how to make a small one for the garden (Cart). 9, A foreigner (Alien). 11, Light afternoon meal (Tea). 12, Kindled (Lit). 13, Before (Ere). 15, Serpent (Boa). 17, Twelve months (Year). 19, He’s the hero of our jungle story (Mike). 22, Musical instrument (Organ). 23, Mingle (Mix). 24, Employed (Used). 25, Not down (Up). . DOWN. ■■ ■ 1, Dressmaker tells you how to .... a jumper (Knit). 2, You see-with;this; (Eye). 3, Dislike very much (Hate). 4, Part of verb “to be” (Are). 5, Remain(Stay). 6, Chum (Pal). 7, There’s a story this week about' . tears (Oliver’s). ’ 10, Prefix meaning “new” (Neo). 14, An animal (Ram). 15, Kind of nail (Brad). 16, Used by the winter-sportsman for gliding over the snow (Ski). 17, Pronoun (You). 18, A generation (Age). 20, Mischievous kind of fairy person (Imp). 21, Prefix meaning “formerly” (Ex). This week’s clues:— . ACROSS. 1, Jolly times when you don’t have to go to school. 6, Compass point. 7, Girl’s name. 9, Negative. 11, Part of verb “to be.” 12, Possesses. 14, Kind of hotel. 16, Calm and demure. 20, Half the number of this. 21, You go to school to be DOWN. 1, Colour. 2, The pupil ...... things at school. 3, Preposition. 4, Wild beast’s home. 5, You have to do them at school. 8, Vehicle. 10, Exclamation. 13, skill. 14, Lazy. 15, Notion. 17, Meaning “and so on.” 18, Insect 19, Termination.

intensity of daylight has fallen below, a certain value. At dawn the lights are switched off as soon as the light has reached the required value. If it becomes foggy during the day, or if there is a storm, the lights are again switched on by Robot. THE LATEST OPTOPHONE.' Among many other wonders of modem science may be seen an instrument' for measuring and recording the brightness of illumination at any. desired spot, and a blancometer for measuring how far a surface such as paper has faded from a standard whiteness. There is also an optophone, enabling blind people to read books and papers. By using this latest form, which is on view at the exhibition, it is now possible for the blind to read at 60 words a minute. 100 MILLION BIRDS. Many attempts have been made to estimate the British bird population. The true figure cannot be known, but it is between 50 and 100 millions, and iff all probability very near the larger figure. There are certainly more birds than people. The families of these, birds must reach enormous dimensions, for it cannot be, less than six times as great as the actual', population. ' That is because far more birds are reared than live to become adults, This point is of great, importance in judging the value of birds as insect exterminators. In rearing their families most birds feed them on insects, and their appetites -are voracious. 1 ■ A single pair of birds will make hundreds of journeys in a single day to procure insects for their young. It is probable, therefore, that bur bird population rids us of insects each year by .millions of millions!, (says the Children’s News-., paper). The rapid growth of young birds in the nest, which is so miraculous, is due to the fact that a nestling will consume its own weight in food in a single day. , • ■■ This bird warfare on the insect world. keeps man alive. If the birds, perished < man would lose more than their beauty and their song, for insects would master the world’and man would succumb.