NEWS FROM THE RING

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 41, 16 August 1930, Page 20

NEWS FROM THE RING

-— » "In bur garden, among a littlo clump of primroses, one tiny primrose had timidly opened its eyes upon a dreary earth, but it still liyes liko some stray star fallen from its home. ..." "CAPTAIN PEGGY." Lyall Bay. '.. .......***.'• "Ermyntrudeand I iave jusfc come out from India. We.are eight.each." GERALDINE MACFISHEB. City. ■ ; ,-. • ... ■■■ . ■ , ...':,. *..:*'. ■*.. . "■■ "When we-were at Pukerua Bay I roamed up-to the bush. It was early morn, and the dew still .clung to the great fronds "of" the* pnngas, the leaves of magnificent ngaios, and the flam; ing. blossom^i>£-'the rata." /'' !' , "RAGGED ROBIN." Miramar. .. : ' ' ' '■! •' ' . -•■ ': ' * ■ #». ■ ■•. ' "As I was going to school the other morning I saw a steamer trying to get to.; the wharf for shelter, but the waves were rocking and tossing her about. She looked a pretty sight." "MIDGET" (7) Kilbirnie. • * • "Out at Rongotai we had good fun. The aeroplanes were flying low, and once we called out to them and they throw us down an orange and a dole's head on a sijiek." .'• . "MICKY THE MOUSE." City. ' ■■■"■"■■■■■ :■. • # • "Lo;d Bledisloe visited our school lately. I was in the workshops at metalwork.; He came up to me an' watched me polishin' th 5 tray I.was makin'^anL.a.jnaciine.. Me hands were black as soot (th' metal makes them black), but he didn't mind, f' he asked me to. let rhim:.have..a.thry at polishin'ut. So I-gave him th' metal an' ho polished ut." ■ "RORY O'MOORE." Island Bay.