FOR THE LITTLE ONES

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 137, 11 June 1932, Page 3 (Supplement)

FOR THE LITTLE ONES

A NEWCOMER

JOHNNIE STARDUST JOINS OUR RANKS,

THE INTERESTING STORY OF SUNNYTOWN,

My Dear Little Friends, — Johnnie Stardust has just left me. For ages we have been talking together and he has told me all about Sunnytown, the city of which I told you last week and which we are going to build, piece by piece, as the weeks go by. First of al! I must tell you a little about Sunnytown. Years ago, when Professor Slapdash was Mayor of Sunnytown, a city in the province of 'Idontcare," the people did just as they pleased. They could waP.k across the streets without looking where they were going—they knew they wouldnt be run over, because the town was so sleepy there was hardly any traffic. Cars parked on the footpaths and boys left their trolleys in the middle of the road. Nobody worried and the professor was too busy trying to calculate the speed of a snail to worry about the affairs of the town. .j °[ co "™e this could not go on for ever, and one day the professor had a terrible nightmare in which he saw snails running down the middle of the street and motor carr, crawling along his specimen bench, so when he woke up he decided he would resign. ™™ N ° W t "r r V' a ;l» ea, ' y I a , ver y wonderful man in the town, and hi. name was Goahead Nobody wanted to be bothered electing a Mayor and so he appointed h.mself, and that is the beginning of our story r»~ firS J ° ffiC u al j ° b T aS tO , change the name of the Province. He did rI)UA *iT iS ° » S,n L P ' y L W ° uld nOt a,,ow the town to be « * province «1hr!,t..1 tl"*' ™ d ' b " auSe the - P*°P le were so very careless, he echnstened_the province "Dobecareful," and now the people of SunnyoZath OS L t Str f etS Ve u y '- VCry , = arefu »y, never park their cars on the Krl l 3' • yS ,eav V he,r trol leys m the middle of the road; and the fhe fo™" a ,' VOnderfu u l si * ht ** behold. But hardly anyone eler see* the fire engme, because they are all so careful that they never light a fire. Of course the houses were all in clumps some were built on their sides, and some had the roof on the ground, and the floor facing the sky so the first task the Mayor set himself was to re-plan the town. For this he called in Johnnie Stardust, and it was concerning the plans of the new Sunnytown that he and I talked for so Icng in my office. The store which we are going to build to-day was his first piece of work and he made Mr. Percy Jones alter his old "Idontcare" signs to read, "Percy T. Jones, Quality Store" on one side, and on the other, "Cheap Cash Store, Percy T. Jones," and on the new verandah he wrote the words "General Store." „ A builder always makes a plan first, and printed below is the original plan of Sunnytown's first new store. It is printed so that all readers of the Budget may make it themselves. A glance at the instructions written beside the drawings will soon explain the method employed. Wherever a dotted line is shown it means that part is to be bent, and the httle tabs with the funny drawings on them are the parts which bend in, in order to stick the store together. It is ever so easy. A small picture at the right of the drawing shows how the store folds all ready for gumming. Of course the first work which town builders must do is to mount the whole picture, including the motor car, on light cardboard or carton board, as explained last week, and then with a sharp knife or a pair of scissors cut around the outside linen. The next town to Sunnytown was Joyberg, and the service car made the trip every day, even though it was only half a mile away. Of course, because it was a new building, the Sunnytown-Joyberg service car always pulled up in front of "the general store. To make this service car, carefully cut round the outline of both cars. Smear gum on the blank sides to stick them together, bend the bottom flaps outwards, and mount on heavy cardboard cut to the size shown in the picture. Well, that completes the first part of the newly-constructed Sunnytown. Next week we will make the Post Office, with its wonderful tower and chiming clock, and, of course, a traffic policeman to regulate the traffic. As the weeks go by our town will grow and we will have all the buildings that we would expect to find in a town with a Mayor as busy as Mayor Goahead. There will be a picture theatre, and a railway station with trains and carriages; ferry buildings, with wharves and ferry boats, and, of course, a fire engine. Yes, even a Sunnytown-Joyland park, complete with swings and round-a-bouts, and all the fun of the fair. See how nicely you can make the jZ2?\ -*■ general store and all the other buildings of Sunnytown, and I will try and fLy arrange a very special competition 'when our town is completely rebuilt.