CROSS WORD PUZZLE.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 938, 7 December 1933, Page 13

CROSS WORD PUZZLE.

CLUES,

ACROSS. I— r*oes not sound much, but may be Everything to a manipulator. WSSS? 25 ™' 10—The Clues in his puzzles may lead to ll French 'river. 0 12—Quite a near neighbour of ours. 14- In winter travelling this may cover a multitude of shins. 15— -This, is always being staged. 26—I_.essf.than this beam might release a hostage. 3 9—Maxim. 22—Musical term. 24- —This puts an end to lumbago. 25 -This is petted at great length in Germany. 29—A worker on the land who ought to know just what will crop up. 20—Cart horse in musical form. 31—Turn' a mule to some Eastern gentleman, 33—Performances hereon gu -with, a

DOWN. 1— There are quite a number in the squad, but it isn’t very clean. 2 " Eli in team ” (arrag.). tsxA'tss.ixv'S? in lt--s—This pillar may grace (?) your gar7—This defence may be open to a double objection. I —Scraps of this we still remember. 17— This has bitter associations with tiie head of 3 down. 18— It’s impossible to locate this exactly so shut up here. 19— Curious upset in the cards seen on 20— This Maori l'ort just about exw*od Id S thiVk of‘Vt ni ° er " enßlnee, 21— Bright result of an animal swallowing a curtailed goddess. 23—A row of houses, perhaps. 26 Islands Said to contain, pirates’ treasure. 27 Very steep. !S—Till, but there’s 130 money in it.

PHILOSOPHICAL INSTITUTE.

The steventy-first annual meeting of the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury was held at the Canterbury College 'last, evening, when Mr D. B. M’Leod presided over a small attenMr G. Jobberns stated that he believed that the greatest work of the institute lay in the direction of assisting and encouraging scientific work JtL 1 ' Christchurch. The dang* r to - be avoided-was that of cutting dowp the s?rT£? a KSfn b s& til** don . e P° od work in fjcgcunrism for the future.

The new office-bearers elected were: President, Mr J. Packer; vice-presidents. Mr E. F. Stead and Dr O. H. Frankel; honorary secretary,. Mr H. F. Baird; honorary treasurer, Mr G. Jobberns; . honorary librarian, Dr R. 8. Allan; council, Dr C. C. Farr, Professor R. Speight. Dr D. B. Macleod, Messrs J. W. Calder, F. E. Hutchinson and F. T. Grigg; honorary auditor, Mr J. O. Jamieson. Dr Farr and Professor Speight fleeted to represent the Institute on tlve board of governors of the New Zealand Philosophical lnsti- , «ute.