COMPETITIONS CORNER.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 237, 6 October 1928, Page 13

COMPETITIONS CORNER.

TESTS FOR OUR READERS.

■ In this corner we will give' daily a problem for solution by our readers. Prizes will not be offered, the idea being to present the reading public with some' brain-testing difficulties which each may smooth out to his satisfaction. •** • ...

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