Kiwi’s Mailbag

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 109, 1 February 1941, Page 16

Kiwi’s Mailbag

Pigliunter, Watron: Thant; you for the stamps, Ben. Neatly soaked, too. So it was the first lone shot! Congratulations. Letter writing does get tedious when there is a long list waiting. True tales can be more exciting that fictitious ones, add I am glad that you enjoyed that Coral Sea adventure.

Taddy. Wellington: Hurrah. Another new member! Perhaps you will tell me some more about yourself next time. Best wishes to you. Sheila. Dad’s Cobber. Carterton: Glad you humoured the Law. Perhaps, being a new arrival, he is extremely conscious of his position! As It is. you must cover miles and miles each week. 'Shall be able to let you know about the official label by next week. Your assorted bulletin certainly made up for absent Smiler’s section of the news. 'Some day’ I shall have to come berry-sampling! Blue Fairy, Lower Hutt: Your name has been added to the big book. Margaret, and 1 am pleased to welcome you. Inky. Martinborough: A big welcome to you, Colin. I am hoping to hear from you again. Yours was a good choice of pen-name. Maid Marion, Pongaroa: What a ijueer little creature! Docs lie strut about and mingle with the others? Postie wants to 'know if you are getting ail your books packed for Monday. Stardust, Mnsterton: 1 want to thank you and 'mother very much for the fat parcel. Sunshine Box likes to store any sort of stamp at all, so please don't go to any bother. It was nice to hear from you again, Margaret. Bose Dreams, Eketnhunn: So you found that dogs were difficult tilings. 1 discovered how hard it was to make them resemble something other than an inky blob, this week. You should appoint Pam as an official critic. After all, you do all her secretarial work! Peony Rose, Hketafiuna: Pens are splotchy things, so pleajg use the pencil as often as you like. Sunshine Box sends a beaming thank you for that bulgy envelope of stamps, and Kiwi sends her love.

Fairyhell, Woodville: So you started on the garden as soon as you got back. The school, with its veranda and large windows looked a Jolly plage in which to have lessons. I liked the gay Punch and Judy notepaper.

Dimples, Eketaliuna: A very happy Christmas, thank you. and I hope that yours was. too. Did these mixed-up pieces of weather make you remember the verse? It was a very good ffort. Best, ot luck for the competition. Queen of the Garden, Eketahuna: Magic caves, with their unexpected corners and twisty turns are great fun. I should have liked to have borrowed the skipping rope this morning, for William has been playing pranks with some more of his shivery winds. The crushed merry-go-round must have been disappointing, but perhaps there will be another chance for a ride next holidays. Best wishes to Bob. Tomboy, Carterton: If only it had been a work-a-day morning! I liked the verse very much. But don’t forget about watching for faulty metre. What a generous gift. You mst have been excited at such a presentation. Tomboy. Carterton: There is a member listed in the pen-name book who belongs to the one you mentioned. (I shall hint at a surprise. Someone clicked a camera yesterday, when Kiwi wasn’t looking.) Flotsam. Pahiatua: How that piece of type managed to walk over last week’s verse, and stay there, has been the mystery of the week. However. I am glad that it set you polishing up the chimneypot poem. An excellent effort. 1 am another devotee who delights in watching those twlnk’ling feet. Paper Sprite, Ileretaiinga: No no ono bad pounced on your first preference, so “Irish Lassie” was not needed after all. 1 am glad that at last you have written, and become a member of the Page. Book Lover, Eketahuna: Hurrah. The riverside sketch was the best yet. The treatment was decidedly “different.” and you had chosen a good setting for the picture. I am very pleased to see that you have been working from real models. The only fault was that there was no contrast between sky and field, and this created a rather “empty” effect. Night Star, Masterton: Every tiling should bo settled now: the first one on the list fitted Into the pen-name book quite easily. It. was wise of you to have sent, a selection. Watching the occasional ships and the changing tides must be fun. Mystery, Feilding: Best, wishes to you, Margaret. I hope you will write again, for I love finding letters from new members in the mailbag.