The Junior Dominion

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 20, 18 October 1930, Page 24

The Junior Dominion

Dear Boys and Girls, I expect you are all in the midst of a term of hard work. It is a most important term too, this end-of-the-year one, with Proficiencies and Senior Free Places hovering in the distance •—and, of course, examinations for smaller members too. Don’t you think it’s very jolly that springtime comes along with “swatting” time? I do, for on sunny Saturdays you can take your school books with you up the pale pink apple trees and sniff the blossoms while you read, and after that, there is still an extra half-hour of precious daylight—time for a long game or a walk. Before you all become quite buried in books, I hope you will find time to ivrite a story or draw a picture, for our Christmas page, because, as one of our Scribes reminds us, it will not be very long before we are having our “stir” of the pudding. Now the next most important announcement is about a new competition. You will all be ready for that, I know, This time, I want you to write and tell me, in no more than two hundred words, the funniest thing that has happened to one of your pets. There will be a beautiful book prize for the best story. All entries accompanied by names, ages, and addresses, must be in by Monday, November 3. If you have a picture of the pet you write about, I should love to have it, too. And so, good-bye till next week.—Kiwi.