LAST WEEK'S COMPETITION
THIRTY-SIX REPLLKS Well if you could, see mo now you'd just see the top of my head sticking out of the pile of letters I have received. Most of tlieni alas were right so of course I have had the world's champion headache, for the past half hour trying to judge them. The. question was : A man and, his wife had seven daughters, each daughter had a brother. How many were in the family. The answer is TKX, 7 girls one son and the father and mother. W ell it was surprising how many were caught out. One little girl worked it out at onlyj
5, though how on earth she did that I don't know. Others have drawn neat diagrams to show how they found their answers. (Thank you Ross). Others again forgot to add in the parents and said there were only eight. One sailorman found eight daughters! At any rate it was a popular competition wasn't it. So I'm going to ask you to be good sports and allow me to award the tickets on merit. Here they arc:—* Warren Kirk Noleen Loomes Betty Wilson Noeline White Olive Hunter Hylas Stewart j
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 59, 26 March 1943, Page 6
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198LAST WEEK'S COMPETITION Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 59, 26 March 1943, Page 6
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