BOYS' OWN COLUMN

Auckland Star, 2 September 1933, Page 2 (Supplement)

BOYS' OWN COLUMN

HERE IS YOUR CHANCE.

OLD BOOKS URGENTLY NEEDED

Dear Boys,— Wendy's Sunshine Campaign has just concluded, and, as you have all read, proved to be the most successful effort yet made by readers of these pages. Here is an oportunity for boys, and I know that all will answer the call. Light literature of all descriptions is always in demand to send to hospital patients and to relief camps—both the workers and their families. Naturally this appeal is mainly for juvenile reading, but if it is possible for all to include some adult reading matter it will be appreciated greatly. What do you do with your old comics? There are scores of children who never see a comic, just as there are scores whose week would be incomplete unless they had read two or three. Wont you pass on your discarded literature so that others may also enjoy an hour or so of quiet amusement? Then there must be .cores and scores of books on the bookshelves of readers which are never opened from one year's end to another— stories of adventure, detective stories and tales of school life. All these will be of such interest to a hospital patient or one for whom the luxury of reading is almost a Forgotten pleasure. Of course the preat stumbling block lies in the fact that postage on books is quite a heavy item. However, to the town reader this difficulty is easily overcome, for books may be left at the counter at thT "Star" office—and your good deed will be the greater because you have had the inconvenience of bringing your contribution into town. I was yarning with the City Missioned ' the other day, and he stressed the fact that light literature was always a most appreciated sift It matters not if the binding of your book is broken or that the cover has gone—willing workers are always prepared to spend their spare time in book repairs. • \ So let's all make an effort to pro- £50 —•'. vide one parcel of books and show eXxJ^*/'**"**^* - that the boys of the club are every bit (,J/ n f n . as ready to respond to a sunshine Kjfj call as the girls. V.^^««"*"^