Kiwi’s Mailbag

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 157, 29 March 1941, Page 16

Kiwi’s Mailbag

• Silveriark, Fellding: No wonder it was the “end of the news," when Erica ?nd the mushrooms hove into eight! It was quite all right about the Ink Margaret, you need only use Indian ink for drawings. and ordinary writing ink is fine for stories and verse. Is the balaclava growing? It must he fun. watching the drill from the window-sill. Irish Colleen, Featherston: Now you are Page pals as well. Welcome to you, Anne, We hope you win some star points, too. Rose Dreams, Eketahlina: Splendid! Both verse and drawing. (But specially the drawing.) There are some fat pumpkins and marrows which decorate a city tearoom and have often reminded me of people like Monty and his fellows. They look so cosy with their glowing autumn colours and swollen sides, don’t they! Was your aunt’s a specially cultivated one? Someone told me they have to be fed on sugar to attain O.S. proportions. It’s easy to see that lettering is included, my address has started to grow serlphs! Pinklepurr, Masterton: A Hunting we will go! What tun. There’s nothing more exciting on a winter day with a nip in the air and a tingling wind. There is something awesome about watching those grim machines thundering across a peaceful sky. Yes, it rained and it rained. But right now the window- cleaner is perched on the ledge—five floors upwiping away the rain-stains and whistling a ioUy tunc, because the sun has returned at last. , Dinky, Levin: It must have been a gala day.' The uniforms, the crowd, and the stirring tunes. It is a really good band, too. The story made me chuckle. City

dwellers do the strangest things when they find themselves on a farm. Was it based on a true happening? Field Mouse, Mnstorton: For a first effort—very good. 1 was quite amazed to find that you had not used a verse-maker's poji before. Do try out some more, June, for your’s seems a promising sort of pen. Toe Dancer, Wellington: So you watched the plane zooming across the city, sprinkling leaflets in backyards and dropping them down into the busy streets. A regular supply like that should keep the doctor away for the worst part of the winter! Do you have milk, too? Such a useful set should make a good -‘background” for your library. It Is wise to start off with a good dictionary or encyclopaedia or two, and gradually add “favourites" that yon can read again and again. Lady Gay, Ilastwell: So sorry mailbag missed you last week, Elva. It certainly sounds like a crack tennis team. Ginger must be a little tiger, but I ean imagine the laughs be gives you when he starts on his jumping acrobatics. Pansy, Greytown: You forgot to mark your age on the story, Marjorie. I'm afraid that ‘’Naughty Margaret” was not’ up to Page standard. I liked your portrait of a New Zealand warrior. Did you get one to -pose for you? Jennifer Patch, Maaterton: Just the sort of news that we like for the Page. Grannie and granddad are a grand couple. Thanks for telling me about them. Hazel. Paddy, Greytown: I’m glad you picked the Kiwi House! Were the running sports held, and were you lucky with any of your five races? Beware of “doutole banking’’ your adjectives in your verse, Mary. Mrs. Murphy, Maaterton: They should be pet sheep by this time! So you earned a certificate. Congratulations. How do you like the new 8.D.? Sapper. Walouru: Shirtie has shown up again. But he is not bound for the grindstone just yet. How are you faring, small member? The Stalk is so busy broadcasting from 20L that she has not had time to write. Anyhow, she is deeply ashamed after the B.P. episode.