Waterbury Conundrums.
♦ In reply to our advertisement calling for Conundrums, Acrostics, &c, for our Golden Waterbury Competition, we received some hundreds of communications, all possessing more or less merit — chiefly less. In weeding out the latter we purpose giving each contributor a meed of publicity, and having thus deposed of the least meritorious we shall publish a score of the best in the chief newspapers of the Colony, and invite the public to nominate the winning Conundrum, by a post-card ballot. Due notice will be given, and the prize sent to and acknowledged by the author selected by the public. A. W., leather merchant, Auckland, sends ua : — " Why is a Waterbury Watch like the sun ? " Answer : " Because it keeps the beet of time." A neat answer, and in no wibo discreditable to the watch or the cun. There are half a dozen other points of resemblance which our contributor overlooks : Both are universal, hoth in the ascendant-,, neither ever sets, both indispensable, both reliable, both supreme in their, refepective orbits. The sun is the centre of the solar system, lesser planets revolving round it, 'ust p.a other watches revolve round the Wi>t<rbury.
Waterbury Conundrums.
Star (Christchurch), Issue 7337, 18 July 1892, Page 4
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