Part 2 — FOREIGN AWARDS.
Reading edition
An Ideal Garden.
Prize Winners (Half-a-Guinea Each).
Cecilia Nicolay, c/o Messrs. John and Cleary, High Street, Freemantle, W. Australia.
Elsie M. Wylie, The Manse, Mintaro, S. Australia.
Very Highly Commended.
Mrs. H. Andrew (Canada), M. D. Browne (India), Nellie M. Daft (Portugal), Ethel M. Danford (Canada), Elsie V. Davies, Lillian Dobson, John A. Fitzmaurice (Australia), L. Hill (Argentine), Anna J. Hood (France), Gertrude Hunt (New Zealand), Harry John (India), Elizabeth Lang (France), Margherita P. Martinetti (Italy), Mrs. G. Marrett (India), Gertrude E. Moore (New Zealand), Beatrice and Hilda D’Rozario (India), Edith Wassell, Geo. Waterstrom (Australia).
No solution has been mentioned which was not verbally perfect. The prize solutions were only discovered to be better than many others after the most minute examination.
The defects which marked the difference between the two groups were, a failure to divide the lines into verses, as shown in the puzzle, the introduction of a hyphen into noonday, the writing of O! for Oh! in the last verse, the omission of the note of exclamation, and, in one case only, the indentation of line 9.
The two competitors who failed in none of these points reap the reward of their carefulness. Half-a-guinea does not go far in Australia, as we know by experience, otherwise we would advise them not to be extravagant with their newly-gotten wealth.