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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 217, 12 September 1936, Page 2 (Supplement)

Sunbeams dear,—~ You will be reading this letter on September 12, the closing day of our campaign. Oh, dear! Oh, dear! Even amidst all this stir and bustle I find lime to be a little mournful at the thought of a Sunshine House without a Sunshine Campaign. But Peter Pan is cheering up wonderfully. He is picturing, so he tells me, his office without stacks and stacks of quills, numbers of hot water bottles and loads of baby singlets. He says the prospect of being able to sit down at his very own desk with a clear space in front of him on which to work is quite jolly. Of course the burning and perplexing question at present is, which club is going to top the ladder when the final points are published next Saturday? It is, as Peter Pan Would say, a knotty problem. Judging by the way the top clubs have been skipping about changing places in the past few weeks, any club might alignt happily on the top rung when the final reckoning comes. This Week, alas f°<~ the Sunray folk, sees this Mount Albert club down to second place—the Cinderella Club for the first time holding the coveted top position. Congratulations to this busy Avondale club. • During the past week there have been several notable gifts to help send the points soaring skywards— twenty-four hot water bottles from the Cinderella folk, and gifts of jam, preserves and groceries from the Pixies, Sunray Club and Roskill Pixies. Quills continue to arrive at the rale of about six a day—how I do wish you could see them, my Sunbeams. At night I lie in bed and think °f them—hundreds of gaily knitted bed coverings with thick cosy linings wrapped round wee babies, keeping the cold from little sick children, bringing warmth and comfort to hundreds of Auckland homes. And did I tell you about our Utile Maori folk? Well someone whispered to Peter Pan that there were numbers of little Maoris attending a native school in the North whose parents were unable to provide them with Warm bed coverings. So Peter Pan and I hatched a little plot and the result Was that five big boxes of patches Were dispatched post haste to be made into patchwork quills for the little Maoris. As we sent the very gayest and brightest patches we could find —just imagine the excitement! M » Well, dear Sunbeams, until next Saturday, au revoir. Oh, dear! t \ Oh, dear! I do Wonder which club We will be congratulating. Love from /ly