Letters From the Northland.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 25, 30 January 1937, Page 2 (Supplement)

Letters From the Northland.

Wendy Tells a Secret. Dear Boys and Cirls—■ r^ U j SC * 01 j "n CVer S ° ' n ' eres ' read Nellie's and Matthew's and Joan's letters, and Lena's 100 and Llady s. I l ( no» Peter Pan and I were. In fact, Peter Pan n>as tremendously excited. Ive a hunch, Wendy, said he one morning last Week, "that the Northern mail TV ill probably bring me some letters from our backblocks children to-day." And sure enough when postie arrived there was a bundle of fat, jolly-looking letters all with the Northern postmark. Of course, there are lots of other children who are making the trip. There is Joe and Mervyn and Roger; and among the girls Lorna and Cherry from J\gataki and Marjorie and Ada and Ivy from far distant Lake Ohia. Of course, everything is extra specially exciting now that our arrangements are becoming a little more definite. To see the names and addresses of seventeen girls and boys typed in a neat list makes Peter Pan and I realise that the trip will soon realh be materialising, and is no longer just a wonderful dream. And now are you all agog with interest to hear one of our very "special" plans for the entertainment of our little Northern visitors? lis a secret, really, but I'm simply bursting to tell j>ou all. On the children's first Sunday m Auckland they are all to be driven out to explore the Mangere Aerodrome and—yes, you have C i B ' Ven a fl'Sht if they wish it. Just imagine the excitement of seventeen boys and girls seeing their first aeroplane at close quarters—actually tilling in it and being whirled up foe an aerial view of Auckland , y a !,/ This is not Peter Pan's big surprise, by the Way—it is just one of our many plans o mafye the children s holiday) the most "wonderful tveck of their lives. dear Sunbeams, this is Anniversary week-end — a holiday rveek-end for J » 3,0 J Z , an l s,sters and V ° ur fathers - 1 hope the weather is kind to campers, , and that all of you have a very happy time. fl