CORRESPONDENCE

New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 70, 25 October 1940, Page 24

CORRESPONDENCE

R.G. (Waihi); Tacked new problems on to letters giving answers. Says he found Three Smart Girls tricky and was inspired by Xercise *

to give us some exercise. Much depends, as we said before, on the weather next week-end. He has sent some problems which will start some thinking. J.P. (Lower Hutt): Thank you for the problem, which we shall use as soon as the drawings are done. Rob (Ahipara): You knew your Archimedes. Thank you for the problem. G.B. (Mt. Eden): Suggests that the Keep it Down problem (answered on October 11) could be elaborated by tacking a ttiangle on the other end. M.B. (Hamilton): Your letter was illuminated by the roseate glow of the PP’s blushes. Modesty is difficult. Thank you. Sorry, but you have been anticipated with the Sale Day problem. X.G.T.. (Kopuawhara): Sends detailed workings to prove his point that there were two solutions to Time for the Guard. They are being forwarded to W. Robinson, with whom X.G.T. has his argument. Answers correct for all other problems. Ajas (Dunedin): A welcome example of the truth of the theory that Scotsmen always answer one question with another. If puzzlers will

inspect Ajas’s problem they will perhaps wonder if the Union was advisable after all. P.J.Q. (Motueka): Says he cannot see how R.G. secured the answer to the Cat and Dog problem. P.J.Q. will have to keep jumping a little longer. He is right about the farm labour but wrong, alas, about the boat in the water. A.G.T. (Picton): Disgrace abandoned. You are rehabilitated. Of course, we knew you would, really. The archzeologists have dug and will report later. Your offering will be emblazoned over The Page shortly. R.G. (Kaiaua): It has been done and you will hear in due course. R.G. (Te Aroha): We have had one R.G. for a long time. We have known for some time that there was one in Te Aroha. Now there are two in Kaiaua, which makes four, and all are keen puzzlers. Like his fellow R.G. in Waihi, this one correctly solves the Xercise. Rob (Ahipara): In another letter this correspondent gives his list of the placings for the schoolgirls, and comments that this method of mixing people was used until 20 years ago with a ial class of convict in one of England’s big prisons. He evidently enjoys The Page as much as we enjoy a homely letter recounting father’s discomfiture when the answer to Rhyme for Time appeared after his family had watched him hunting high and low for a clue. N.N. (Kawhia): Nice to hear from Kawhia. L.W.J.S. (Tauranga): Have we deciphered your initials cofrectly? Thank you for the puzzles, but our smattering of French just does not matter when it comes to making head or tail of the second. Sorry; but would you please?