A CURIOUS SUM.
Do you want to try a bit of arithmetic ? —Put down the number of your living brothers. Multiply by two. Add three. Multiply the result by five. Now add the number of your living sisters. Multiply the total by ( ten. Add the number of your dead brothers and sisters. Subtract l'sO from the total. The right hand figure will be the number of deaths, the middle figure the number of living sisters, add the lefthand figure the number of living brothers.
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Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 25 April 1918, Page 2
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84A CURIOUS SUM. Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 25 April 1918, Page 2
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