YOUNG AUCKLANDERS' HAPPY HUNTING GROUND.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 70, 23 March 1935, Page 2 (Supplement)

YOUNG AUCKLANDERS' HAPPY HUNTING GROUND.

MICHAEL AND THE BUDGET FAMILY FLY THEIR KITES

Dear Boys and Girls, — Michael and the Lost Boys Were out this week,, flying their kites on a windy hillside, and great fun V?? l * >eT , e nav ' n S> 100, with the big frames lugging at the siring and pulling away up to the blue. Quite suddenly Michael's gave an extra big tug and off it Vent sailing high into the blue skies. Rather disappointed, Michael sat down on the grass and watched the others. Hullo," said a kindly man who Was Watching the kite-flying, "lost yours? I wonder what il vj'dl find away up in space. It was kites, you know, thai brought you electric light." "Electric light?" said Michael interestedly. Well, electricity," said the man. "Benjamin Franklin was an American who believed that everything that had been done with electricity was no more than was to be observed in lightning. To prove this he flew a kite in a storm and saw that loose little strands of siring stood out stiff and bristling. They were electrified. He touched a little key he had attached to the l(ile string. Immediately he fell a shock and saw an electric spark- He had proved that lightning is electricity, and that lightning conductors must be built. That also is the reason why you are always warned not '"""" to fly your kite on rainy days." flj/ i J^^^*"*^^ Dont forget that last little piece of advice, will you, boys and girls, now \}Jv\^^'^ that the kite season is in full swing? CLUB CAPTAIN.