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Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 50, 27 June 1930, Page 5

8100 Spelling Bee Inspires Formation of Spelling Clubs Wave of Interest and Keenness Grows Entries Close July 19 CORRESPONDENCE received from various qarters; and personal reports, No. 2 List of Words show that populai attention has been arrested by our Monster Spelling Berz As a letter from a correspondent (published below ) shows, in some collaborator dialectal execrable dis ricts spelling clubs _ are being formed with a social purpose: Although, confluence dietetics executory as tne old Scotchman said, the drawback 'of a dictionary was that sthe subject conglutinate dietary exemplary changed So frequently; the charm of checking up on existing knowledge and connoisseur digitalis exercisable discovering new things is So great that, Once caught i the lure of snew consanguinity dirigible exhalable things; it is difcult to leave off: The beneft of 8 social evening is that convolvulus disputative exhaustible there Is the added excitement of discovering the weaknesses of others' know- curvilinearity driveller exhibitory cyclorama exhortative ledge: ebullient existent If bas been represented to uS by one or two intending competitors tbat they defalcate electrolysis exorcist would appreciate the- entrance fee being reduced to 1/-_ As it is our demisemiquaver emanation exoticism prime object to create interest in the contest, we are happy to accede to this debilitate embellisher expatiatory request, SO that the entrance fee hencforth is 1/- and those who have already decalitre embryologist expiatory entered will be refunded the money overpaid: deciduous emeritus expletory decimation emollescence expository NOTHER point raised by intending competitors bas reference to tbe decipherable empiricism expurgatorial publicity of the proceedings in the early stages: It is not: intended declension empyrean extemporaneous nthat the preliminary stages necessary to discover those to' enter the final decorous enamellist extraditable Shall be' conducted publicly. A limited number Of friends of competitors may decorator encomium extraneous wish to attend, and that will be permitted, but organisation will not be under- dedicatorial entablature extortioner taken to provide for large public attendance at the preliminary trials The deductible enumerator extenuatory public will be given the opportunity of attending the final contest; when the defeasance ephemeral factorial champions of the seven main divisions will appear; Parts of the eliminating defeasible epicureanism fallacious trials may be broadcast, thus adding to the interest of the event_ defecate epigrammatist fallibility JBeLow we give extracts from the letter of a Lower Hutt correspondent defectibility episcopalianism falettonade Other communications from country districts show that the idea has defoliator eridcative fatalistic caught on, and has inspired the development of local contests: It is certain deforestation erasable feasibility that, on the evening of the final, listeners all over the country will have their degeneracy erysipelas fenestral list Of words culled from the "Radio Record" before them; and keenly check dehydrate escheator ferriferous up on the efforts of the contestants: deistically escutcheon fertiliser deleterious I THINK your spelling idea is simply splendid; writes a Lower Hutt delineator espalier fduciary correspondent; and already you've provided uS with an amusing and demurrage espionage fiendish interesting occupation for the evenings this winter_ I wish you could have demurrer etherealisation figural seen a party Of uS balf a dozen of either sex enjoying ourselves with a dengue ethereally filamentary good, old-fashioned spelling bee one night last week: There were roars of denominative ethicist financer laughter when we caught three of the girls out on sclandestine; "romantic dentigerous ethnologically finicality and 'embraceable; but thev got one back on us when they handled the 'hig denudation etiolation flabbergast book: Two of uS were caught out on salcoholic;' and one, metaphorically deodoriser etymologist flaccidity speaking, went down under sinebriation: When we got on to strick words deponent eucharistic fagellator the fun was fast and furious. deposable evanesce flamboyant (6 Anyway. tbe outcome of the evening was that we found the idea such depository exaggerator flannelette a change that we've decided to have 2 couple more 'private sittings' before derivate exchangeability flexibility vour great night, and therell be a baker's dlozen of uS lining up before your derogatoriness excisable fuidity judge when that comes round And we'11 be well primed too, with words derringer exclugory focuses only. of course. deshabille excrescence follicular sSeriously_ vour comnetition is an excellent idea. and if others try out deterrent exculpatory forensic our #spelling bee party scheme they1l find it full of fun, and theyll be sur- devitrify excusatory fortuitousness nrisea, too. at what thev will learn. Then they can line up against us 'Hutt RECORD" SPELLING BEE. Howlers' in August; and we1l give them a run for their money _ ENTRY FORM FOR SRADIO (Closing date : July 19.) FIRST PRIZE Order for $50, and Valuable Supplementary Prizes: Details of Prizes and Outline of S10o Contest (ENTRANCE FEE : 1/-) To 'RADIO RECORD; 24 Handsome Prizes Given Po. Box 1032, Wellington ; Or Thira" Floor; "Dominion" Building: Ist Prize : Order for E50. to he snent on a Radio Set or apparatus from Wakefield Street, Wellington. approved advertisers in the sRadio Record: Please receive my entry in Section (specifying No. of Znd Prize: Order for 820, to be snent in the purchase of electrical Section) for your Monster Spelling Bee. Entry fee 'of 1/- enclosed. apparatus or equinment from annroved advertisers. I will abide by the rules laiq down and accept all decisions of the 3rd Prize: _ Order for 95 worth of radio or electrical apparatus Judge, Mr. J. Norrie, of the Wellington Public Library, as final. 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