PREMIER PRIZES.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20483, 8 December 1934, Page 26 (Supplement)

PREMIER PRIZES.

Splendid, Splendid Starlets. FIRST— Dorothy Stanton (224 marks), 27, Clifton Street, Addington. SECOND— Kathleen Turner (2181), 35, Clissold Street, Merivale. THIRD— Brenda Payne (2114), 330, Ferry Road, Linwood. FIRST (Boys) Jack Payne (991). 3i50, Ferry Road, Linwood. SECOND— Euan Retallick (691), Heberden Avenue, Sumner. West Coast. GIRLS— Myrtle Glenn (1321), Derby Street, Westport. BOYS— Raymond Glenn (661), Derby Street, Westport. Aunt Hilda’s Special. (For Social Service.) Lydia Laraman, Rakaia. FOUND. Aunt Hilda has a jet brooch found in Jackson’s Road, Fendalton, last weekend. Would anyone knowing the loser please tell her? It appears to be an old brooch and is probably valued by the owner. Apply with description to Aunt Hilda at the “Star” office. Telephone 31-806. YOUNG BIRDS WITH BIG APPETITES. How would you like to have an appetite like a young robin? lie can —and does —eat fourteen feet of earthworm in a day—if his mother gives him that much! The great capacity of birds to devour all kinds of worms and insects is a lucky thing for man, because if it were not for the millions of pests they consume, the earth would soon be buried under a plague of insects. A scarlet tanager has been observed eating 30 caterpillars in eighteen minutes. A northern yellow-throat, feeding in a tree infested with plant lice, devoured 3500 of the insects in forty minutes. And when two night-hawks were killed and their stomachs examined one was found to contain sixty grasshoppers an . the other more than 500 mosquitoes. Every young bird, in order to grow, must eat from one-half to his full weight of food every day. Just figure out how much you would have to eat if you consumed food on the same scale!

HUMOUR IN ADVERTISEMENTS. Lost, a pound note by working girl tied iri a knot. Wanted a capable housekeeper able to milk cows, to keep house for one Lost, a fountain pen by a man half full of ink. Lost, a watch by a man with a cracked face. Lost, sealskin jacket by a young lady with red flannel inside. Wanted a boy to open oysters with a reference. “ Rooms to let in best part of North London, suitable for two young ladies fifteen feet wide by twelve feet long. “ Ladies’ own skins made up,” is the cool offer of a furrier. “ Pianist required, must be good or “ Wanted, a girl about sixteen for bottling and pickling.” THANK YOU. Aunt Hilda thanks all the Starlets who wrote the “ thank you ” letters to our Barrytown friends. OLD TRUISM. “ ’Tis a very good world that we live in, To lend or to spend tor to give in; But to beg or to borrow, or get a man s ’Tis the very worst world that ever was known.” A couple of workmen were excavating for a proposed building when an interested spectator inquired. “llow is it, Pat, although you and Mike started together, he has a bigger pile of dirt than you?” “ Shure," was the retort, “ he’s diging a bigger hole.”

What train should a dull boy travel on ? The Brighton up train. What is the biggest room in the world?—The room for improvement. Old Lady (waking with start at cricket match) : What are they clapping for? Grandson: Oh, Smith bowled a maiden over. Old Lady: Oh, the poor thing! Was she hurt?

FOR EXCHANGE. Dear Auntie, —Could you please find space in your page for a small notice? Could anyone change Nos. 64, 119. 50, 60. 32, 39, for any of these:—Nos. 21, 34. 35, 40. 96, 85, 101, 103, 109, 110, 111, 114, 115, 116? It does not matter which the}' send, even if there is only one they can change. Please send to Hilary Drake (Ashley Bank).