Fun on the Surfboard.

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 72, 18 December 1937, Page 31

Fun on the Surfboard.

“Come! Come for a swim before tea.”

“Oh, what fun, just the thing” I took my surfboard and then the fun began. I went and pushed it.and I had to run to jump on. When I did jump on, the board would slip along and I would fall back into the water. Again and again I did it. Soon 1 went up among the rushes. After a while I went home and had a bath, and then went to bed and had my tea, so ending a lovely day.— Mako Shark (7), Kaumati Beach, Someone is Busy. We play football and learn swimming at school now, and it is topping fun. Darkie doesn’t like taking me to school these days, as it is so hot, but there are plenty of shady trees in the school paddock for him. Darkie is the only pony there now. Not long ago there were three—Bubbles. Topsy and Darkie. Tip caught a bunny the other day. He is growing a big dog now, though Joyce says he’s all legs. I am making a cart for my pet calf, Joe Lewis, to pull. I have another calf called Tommy Farr, and .a black one called Lofty. I’ve got a lamb called Annabelle, and ten yellow fluffy chicks. I made a kite at school and it flies ever so high on a windy day. In my vegetable garden I have sweet corn, peas, beans, potatoes, lettueds, radishes, turnips, cabbages and four tomatoes. At school I help to look after the flower gardens. We have got a vegetable garden, too, which I look after. We had our school painted not long ago, cream with a red roof, and it looks very nice. Our school is only tiny, and it is on top of a hill. 'There are lots of wattle trees and pink rambler roses round it.— Swagger Bill (9), Waipawa. A City Jubilee. The jubilee celebrations of our city opened last Saturday with a monster procession of decorated bicycles, motorcars. tricycles, ponies and traps, and different girls' teams which competed in inter-house games at the showgrounds. These were followed by drill displays on Monday, when the children had a jubilee picnic with free ices, milk, sweets and soft drinks. The letters “1837-1937, Palmerstbn North,” were formed by the schoolchildren. We had moving pictures taken of it. Wednesday till Friday was the Maori cavalcade, and of course they cooked a bullock. On Friday night the flreworks display took place, and it was simply lovely. On Saturday evening the Don Cossack riders, the pipe bands, national dancing and anti-aircraft display took place. — Anne McGill, Palmerston North.

Baby Birds Down the Gate-Post. /TOI-TOI and 1 hunted everywhere In X the lupins by the gate for the nest, while we waited for the ear to take us to school. We couldn’t find it anywhere. Next morning the baby birds were cheeping louder than ever. Then we saw the mother bird with a worm in her mouth. Where do you think she went? Right down the gate-post. When we looked, we saw it had a hole in the middle, and the baby birds were half-way down. This happened last year. The other day we heard a cheep, cheep again and we found more baby birds in the post this year as well. —Original by Flax (7), Paraparaunm.