MY NAME'S IN PRINT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 29, 4 February 1933, Page 16 (Supplement)

MY NAME'S IN PRINT.

A READER'S MEMORIES,

ANOTHER LAST LETTER

Sherwood Avenue, Grey Lynn, Auckland, W. 2. Dear Peter Pan and .Wendy,— A 6 I shall be 18 on Friday, I am taking the opportunity in the quietness of a Sunday evening of writing to say good-bye to you. I have beeu rather a silent member during the last three months. However, with matrie. looming ahead, I had to give up nearly all my spare moments to revising all those facts which would make a point of escaping my memory. 1 hoped that I would be able to write articles during the holidays, but unfortunately when one spends, one's days at the beach it is impossible, or at least so I have found it, to concentrate on writing. There always seems such a lot which one can do at the beach, and the hours seem to slip away so quickly that the day is finished almost before one notices that it is gone. My days as a member of the Budget family have been like that. It is about two and a-quarter years since I decided to become a member of the club, and I cannot tell you how much fun and ex-j citement I have had since then on many j a Saturday night, when, on opening the pages, I have found something of mine j printed. I shall never forget the thrill I got when 1 saw myself —or, rather, my work —in print for the first time. I was spending my August holidays at ■ the beach, and on the way home from the store I opened the "Star" to look at the Budget. Suddenly I saw my own name. Next minute I was running-home as fast as I could to show my people. Personally, f think that one experiences a genuine feeling of excitement only once —when one's first article appears. • After that, although anything printed tilings a glow of pride to one's heart, it is only one's first effort which is rewarded with such a feeling of excitement. The Budget is growing quite old in years, and since its first appcarance it has found its way into the hearts of thousands of New Zealand as well as of overseas children. In my opinion, the best part .of the inside pages are the splendid letters which you both, Peter Pan and Wendy, write to us all. In an album at home I have kept all the cuttings of mine which have appeared since my (list effort. They are very precious to me, and when in the future I shall look at them I shall remember all the happy days I spent as a member of what I am sure is one of if not the happiest of the families in the world! To you, Peter Pan and Wendy, to Tinkerbell, and everyone connected with the Budget, and to fellow-members, I Wish the very best of luck for the future, and to fellow-members especially I give my best wishes for their'success in all (he efforts which they send to make our paces bright and gay. With all best wishes for a happy and prosperous New Year. Your Verv sincere Budgetite, MARJORIE MORTON. [Our pages, will seem quite strange without your work. Marjorie, but the time of parting comes to us all.—P.P.]