NEWS FROM MEMBERS

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 20, 18 October 1941, Page 14

NEWS FROM MEMBERS

TVE had a lot of.rain, and we could • not go outside. We have three pet lambs. There are a great number of lambs out on the hills, but they, are very small. We have got new seats lu the school bus now. On Father’s Day Dad had a lot of presents. Altogether he bad eight.— Mrs. Murphy (9), Masterton. s Fire Fancier. We are having terrible '.weather here. It is good to be at home with a nice fire burning and a book. The daffodils are dying now. lam earning quite a lot of money for finding bottles.

We had a .beautiful big rubbish fire and we roasted some potatoes on it. They were lovely.— Happy Maid (10), Marton. M Tennis Balls and Birds’ Eggs. As I am writing this letter I am sitting on. our front steps, basking in the glorious sunshine. (Summer frocks and

short socks are appearing fast, as well as tennis racquets. We haven’t found any more birds’ nests so far, but as we seem to lose a tennis ball every day, and are always climbing hedges for tennis balls, we should see some nests, too. — Booklover (13), Eketahuna. Maggie the Martinet. Granny once had a magpie. Every time it saw visitors coming through the gate .it flew up to them aud squawked, “Go round the back, go round the back.” The visitors had to, otherwise the magpie would fly at them and peck them. — Rahiri (13), Wellington. The Knight’s Motto. Here is something I have just read, and thought so good I could not resist sending in for other members to read.

It is called the Motto of the White Horse Knight and was found worked on an old: sample dated 1420 A.D. “I expect to pass through- this world ' but once; any good thing, therefore, that I can, or any kindness I can show to any fellow-being, let me do it now; let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.”— Field Mouse (17), Masterton. Newsey. I knitted a jersey for the little refugees’ in England. We have three calves. Their names are Olive, Peggy and Joan, and we have a dear little lamb called Edna.— Little Angeline (11), Te Horo. Prompt. , We have six -pet calves that are very playful. They frisk about the paddock, but when they are called for their food, they soon stop frisking and come running for their-lives. — Spider Web (12), Greytown. Blossom Time. Daffodils stand growing in clumps nodding their bright golden heads. Jonquils grow in a more civilized manner for they grow in rows. Sb-yly peeping from 'behind green leaves are the sweet little violets. We haven’t so many now, because the season for violets is almost over. Growing in great profusion are the pretty little pansies. They are mostly purple in colour, but we have mauve, lavender and striped ones.

Aren’t the deep blue grape hyacinths beautiful and bright? Mother has two big pink hyacinths out at present. We have lots of flowering trees out, too.— Non! (12), Silverstream.