A SMALL GIRL'S MAIL

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 23, 28 January 1924, Page 6

A SMALL GIRL'S MAIL

UNOFFICIAL PUBLICITY AGENT

New Zealand has a publicity agent in Carsonville, Michigan, U.S.Aj., not an official, accredited, and appointed agent, but a 14-year-old high school gift, Hilda Goodall, and her unofficial appointment came about in quite an unexpected fashion. Three or four months - ago she wrote to the Mayor of Wellington, Mr. B. A,. Wright, saying that she and her school mates were working up a]small exhibition, and asking for what she styled "some souvenirs of your little country." That request wag mentioned by Mr. Wright to the Press, and chronicled as an interesting bit of "small news," the girl's name being mentioned quite incidentally. The Mayor replied, and also sent to Carsonville, Michigan, some booklets, odds and ends, specimens of ferns, greenstone, kauri gum, and the like, and so also did several other people, both. from Wellington and from North and South, for apparently the newspaper paragraph travelled with tn*malM n<l caught the eye of many with a kindly feeling for small girls of an inquiring frame of 4mind. This morning the Mayor received a further letter from Miss Goodall, in which she says: "I received your letter just a few weks1 ago, and the second one just lately. Alone with the fii'st there were twenty-one other letters from New Zealand, and the next day came sixteen magazines and papers. Later came a leather-covered book', and still later came thirteen more letters, and later again your parcel. . . . Really, I dont know how to thank you for all you have done."

It may be that Miss Goodall will receive still some more letters and still some more magazines .and papers, and if the matter sent to Carsonville is as interesting as it should be, she will be delighted and the school exhibition will be a tremendous success. Also the postman will be overworked, .and the Dominion will he well advertised in that section of the State of Michigan As showing again how apparently merely moderately interesting n?w s tra* vels, the case of the signet ring found n a ba c of wool in America may al so be mentioned. A brief paragraph appeared in-each of -to* Wefiingfon papers to the effect that a ring had been so found, and since then letters from hop ° ful claimants have reached the fi daily, from far north as Auckland and as far south as Invercargill, and one,, yesterday, from Brisbane, Queens. ! a HKr , A, deAßite .claim, however was established some time ago.