BONDS FOR BOMBERS.
Sir-I should like some information about the recent competition "Bonds for Bombers." I listened to "Jerry" making the original announcement and understood him to say, inter alia, that the sentence had to contain 20 to 25 words. Yet the winner’s sentence used only ten words. The remainder of the prizewinners evidently thought as I did because they offered quite lengthy efforts. The difficulty in composing such a sentence is proportionate to the number of words to be used, and it does appear that some injustice has been suffered by competitors who adhered to the rules. When the list of winners was read out the announcer said that "what was wanted was a central idea, of course." Well, that was the first time that the non-telepathists knew of that condition. There were so many angles from which this competition could be, and was tackled. I am quite open to correction but if the foregoing is true, then who knows that my ‘ungrammatical and very infantile effort may have rung the bell if the organisers had kept to their own rules. After all. a hundred pounds!
PREVARICATOR
(Wellington).
{The sponsors of the above competition inform us that the original announcement mentioned "a maximum of 20 to 25 words’. The Competition was judged by a committee of four; entirely independent of the NCBS.]
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 152, 22 May 1942, Page 4
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223BONDS FOR BOMBERS. New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 152, 22 May 1942, Page 4
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