NEWS FROM SHANGHAI.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 239, 8 October 1932, Page 3 (Supplement)

NEWS FROM SHANGHAI.

MEMBER'S INTERESTING LETTER. Shanghai, 13/8/32. Dear Peter Pan. I was very pleased to receive my badge and certificate. I am now having, ten weeks' summer holidays from school, and enjoying it very much. 1 go to the Y.M.C.A. three days a week for swimming, and'learned to swim this summer. It in dreadfully hot, 10J degrees for nearly a week, then 102 and 103. This is the hottest summer in Shanghai for three years.

I am enclosing a snapshot of my brother and myself with our Chinese servants, which mummy took in the garden. There is Amah (nurse), cook boy and the coolie. They have all been with us fo'- over five years, and we are very fond of „bem.

One night we went, to a Chinese dinner just next to our house. The garden was very nicely lit up with pretty coloured lights. T icre were about 200 gueste; mummy, daddy, my brother, another gentleman and, myself were the only foreigners. lam sending you a menu of the dinner, which is written in Chinese, but I do not think you can read it. Ask the Witch Doctor if he can.

Last night we had a terrific thunderstorm. The forked lightning was terrible, and a thunderbolt fell with such

a loud noise. I am sorry my brother cannot write this mail, because he is ill. With all good wishes to you and all the girls and boys of the Peter Pan Club, Yours truly, Joyce Bartley.