NEW SMILES IN ENGLAND.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 5 February 1927, Page 18

NEW SMILES IN ENGLAND.

3 Council Houses, Alfold Nr. Billingshurst, Sussex, England, November 12, 1926,

Dear Smile Queen, —You will be surprised to hear from me. lam joining your Smile Club. I have read all* the Smile letters in the October Hawcra Star sent to my Mum from Manaia. It does seem funny to read of your having spring and we are in winter. We have boon having gales all this week. This is a little village 10 miles from a town. 1 wish I had a dear little lamb or a calf like some of your Smiles in N.Z. We have a wireless sot and hear all the 2LO programmes. Sometimes we can hear a call from New Zealand. Yesterday I heard the bugles from London after the two minutes' silence, and they were very clear. My Dad was killed in the war in 1917 at Yprcs. I am sending you my Armistice poppy. Well, good-bve, Smile Queen. I shall always look for your page when wo get a paper. From Ronald Parsons. Ago, 9.

[Yours was a beautiful letter, Ronald. If you don’t write every mail, I know I shall feel so sad. Thank you so much for the poppy. lam putting it carefully away with the one I wore out here. It would be lovely if you could keep a lamb or a calf, but perhaps you have a dog or a kitten. Write again soon please and tell me the date of your birthday.—S.Q.]

No. 5 New Cottages, Alfold Crossways, Nr. Billingshurst, Sussex, England, November 13, 1926. Dear Smile Queen, —I should very much like to become one of your Smile friends, if I may. The weather has been A-ory wet and miserable, just lately, but yesterday it was bright and beautiful. On the 11th November vve kept the two minutes’ silence in remembrance of our heroes of the Great War. We all heard the service in Canterbury Cathedral on the wireless at school. We have a little puppy named Tiny, who is very fond of hiding our slip pers. From your uoav Smile, Evelyn Taylor. Age 12, Std. V. [We are just thrilled, Evelyn, to have members of our Smile Castle in England. You arc lucky to have Ihe wireless at school. We have many homes fitted with it, but not our schools yet. T was in Surrey when I was a little girl. My Smile Queen took me. Wo hope you will write every mail. Pltaso tell us if you wore born in England, or if you Avere a New Zealand baby. Also be sure and say what date your birthday is.—S.Q.*]