GREEINGS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 307, 28 December 1935, Page 2 (Supplement)

GREEINGS.

My Dear Girls, — A Happy New Year to you all, and may each and every one of my Sunbeams have lots of good luck and much happiness during 1936. Did you all have a Merry Christmas, and was Santa good to you this year? Ido hope so, for Christmas can be such a wonderfully jolly time, especially when one is young. Well, dear Sunbeams, I remember promising in my last letter to tell you who it was I met and stayed with while holiday-making in Christchurch. "Aunt Hilda," no less! Imagine that—oh, I was so very thrilled. Aunt Hilda, you know, adopts every South Island boy and girl as a niece or nephew, and a wonderfully popular auntie she is too. She conducts the children's pages in the Christchurch "Star-Sun," and one sunny morning along came the editor looking, oh, most mysterious. He had a wonderful plan up his sleeve. Aunt Hilda and I were to go travelling, no less—running ever such jolly parties for little folk in the So we packed our bags, Aunt Hilda and I, and bright and early one morning we left Christchurch, bathed in pale spring sunshine, and started on lne ' ong tra * n i ourncv across through the Alps to Greymouth. ut lam frixicl our trip across and all we saw anc ' C ' on *' lc West Coast must await future . letters, my Sunbeams, for once again space is all used up and I must say good-bye for now. f, Love from W