Second Ingenuity Competition.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXV, Issue VI, 11 August 1900, Page 278

Second Ingenuity Competition.

THE PRIZE WINNERS. The second ingennit y competition was a very great success. thong'll almost all the cousins declare Roberts was a far more difficult word to make a sentence out of than Mafeking. I have found it very hard indeed to decide on the prize winner. but after much thought have awarded FIRST PRIZE COCSI N N EWTON ANDREWS. Opononi. Hokianga. • who sends quite a number of sentences. the best of which is Roberts’ Officers Brought Eleven Rebels ’l’o S|rt’ingfontei n. This I think you will all agree well deserves the prize. It is simple, direct, ami is founded on absolute fact. It may interest you to hear another of Cousin Newton’s sentences: Roberts. of Britain. Entreated Rebels 'l’o Surrender is. I think, another capital one. ami runs the prize winner very close. SECOND PRIZES. So many cousins entered for the compel ition that I determined to give a small second prize, but I now find it impossible to separate two cousins for this, and must bracket as EQUAL SECOND COCSI N ADELAIDE BUYERS. Whangarei.

And COCSIN GI,AI>\VYS GRAHAM. Auckland. to each of whom I am sending- a small souvenir. Here is Cousin Adelaide’s sentence: — Roberts’ Official Bearing- Ever Reveals The Soldier. and here is that of Cousin Gladwys:— Roberts Outwitted Boers Eisily, Reading Their Strategy. There are so many other good sentences that I cannot put in even one more without putting in all. for if I left out any. it would seem like favouring certain cousins and being unkind to others. To put all in is impossible as we have such a quantity of letters this week. Besides 1 have some new competitions to tell you about and to ask you to go in for. As you all seem to like making, sentences out of words I shall open a