OUR WEEKLY MOTTO.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 23, 28 January 1928, Page 2 (Supplement)

OUR WEEKLY MOTTO.

i The prize for the best thought I T goes this week to Jean Menzies, | i Firth Road, Grey Lynn, aged 15. | | Jim Middleton's motto was little £ 1 behind hers, while other good at- | | tempts were submitted by Francis s i Bishop and Margery Totich. | | I ■ "If you can't say a pleasant word, I I it is best to say nothing." j Nelson Rush has passed his proficiency and Intends going to the Technical College ror a year.—Your question is answered in the querv column. I wish you success at your new school. Joyce Davidson spent her Christmas Eve in town buying toys arid says she had a very happy new year.—-I hope the rest of the year is just as happy. That sounds a good way of spending Christmas Eve. Jean Menzies, after a six months' stay in hospital for a serious operation is now feMing well enough to spend a day or tw* at Cheltenham, sun bathing and swimming. Enclosed is her suggestion for the week's motto. —I'm sure you're not sorry to change hospital for beach. You must be well on the road to recovery by this time. Kathleen Nerheny, at the age of eleven, is now in Standard VI. She asks me to suggest a name for her kitten.—You are to be congratulated. Are you going to sit ror a scholarship at the end of the year? T rather like Bartholomew for a cat's name. Enid Billing has arrived in Auckland and expects tn be here for good after this. Sh" has just boijun going to the Parnell baths. Enclosed is a suap or Mount Egmont.—Thanks for the snap; it has turned out most successfully. Yes. I swim quite often. I think you're going to like Auckland, especially in the summer when you'll be able to swim. Malcolm McGregor has been awav to Waipu ou bis uncle's farm.—You must have had a lovely time there. Standard I. seems ever so much higher tban Primer IV, doesn't it? Nessie Harrison has been prevented by many exams, rrom writing lately. In three weeks she will be glad to return to her school, but sorry to see the end or the holidays.—l know what examinatitis is like and can only sympathise. Most Guide companies liave stopped activities ror the holidays, but are expected to continue shortly. Jack Crippen has been unable to number his competition entry because the paper was destroyed.—Don't worry. Jack. I understand it was an accident.