THE SMILE CASTLE MAIL=BAG.

Hawera Star, Volume L, 29 November 1930, Page 15

THE SMILE CASTLE MAIL=BAG.

Tangarakau. Dear Smile Queen, —It is raining here to-day and the road is awfully muddy. The inspectors are not here yet. The Christmas holidays are near now. The school children are having a Christmas tree on December 12. As that is all I wili close. Good-bye. With ~_,ve to you and all the Smiles at the Castle. From your loving Smile Eileen Bryant. (You must be longing for the real summer to come Eileen even more than we are in the Town. The Christmas Tree should provide you with some good fun. Yours S.Q.) Meremere. Dear Smile Queen, —Just a few lines to you again. Dad and Mum put one hundred brocoolli" plants in yesterday. We have plenty of lettuces now we are trans-planting them. It is my little sister’s birthday on the 28th of this month and she is having a big cake. I thought that piece of poetry was all right and I am not sending any more. It has been raining all morning, but the sun is shining now. My brother Joe might join the Smile Castle next year. I don’t know. Well 1 must close. Love to you and all the Smiles. From Queenie Coltart. (1 hope the little sister enjoys her birthday party Queenie, she will love cutting the cake. We would be glad to have your brother in the Castle too. I hope he joins up next year. Yours. S. Q-) Wairere Falls. Dear Smile Queen, —We are having very rough weather. One night there was a very loud peal of thunder, which shook the house. Baby is seven months old, and he can nearly sit up. Tie has two teeth, and he can Lite very hard. I am sending something for* the Gift Cupboard this week. Love from Margaret Sundviek. P.S. —I worked the feeder myself and would like you to enter it for the sewing competition please. (Many thanks for the parcel Margaret. I shall see that it is also entered for the sewing competition. Yours S.Q.) Rowan. Dear Smile Queen, —It is such a long time ago since I wrote to you last, but although I have not written I have not forgotten about you. Isn’t it terrible weather we are having lately, but I suppose it will_ change soon. Sunday school has started in Rowan now. i am reading a book from the children’s library called ‘“Miriam’s. Ambition” and it is very interesting. I am doing some sewing for the competition. We have got a few. flowers out in the flower garden and we will soon have some radishes ready to eat. I will have to leave now and go and get my tea, so 1 will close with heaps of love, I remain your loving Smile, Ruby Jackson. It is very nice to hear from you again Ruby and to find that you have not forgotten the Gift Cupboard. I hope von will write again soon. Yours S.Q.) * Hawera. Dear Smile Queen, —It is a week since I wrote to you and it is time to write my weekly letter to you again. Did you see the five bombers come over Smile Queen? Those bombers don’t make as much noise as that one monoplane does. We really saw seven aeroplanes to-day as the five that came together came from Auckland and the other two were from the aerodrome. As far as I know I will be taking part in the Dixon Banner sports next month. Well Smile Queen this is all for now so with love to all at the Castle, I remain your loving Smile, Victor Robinson.

(The aeroplanes made a fine sight indeed Victor. Fancy seeing seven up in one day! It shows how fast we are progressing in flving. Yours S.Q.)

Rowan. Dear Smile Queen, —I hope all at the Castle are very well. We have started Sunday school up at Rowan. Hasn’t this year gone quickly? My little brother David was four on November 9th. We haven’t had a fine day since last week. lam sending you a piece of poetry for the Smile Page. Goodbye. I remain your loving Smile, Doris Jackson. (The year has indeed flown by Doris. We shall be having Christmas upon us very shortly. Thanks for the poetry. Yours S.Q.) , Hawera. Dear Smile Queen, —I was very pleased to see a letter of mine in the ,sinlie page again. Although it is Sunday I saw seven aeroplanes, there were five aeroplanes from Auckland and then the ether two were the ones that are in Hawera at present. It has been very bad weather for summer and so cold', just like winter. The gardens will be very pretty when the sweetpeas and the roses are all out in flower; we have quite a lot of roses nit and sweet-peas in bud. Mum lets the chickens out for a big run in the green grass every day now. We will be breaking np on the 19th of December, then we will have a big holiday. I will be sending some things to the Gift Cupboard very, soon now. Well Smile Queen I must close now with love to you and all the Smiles at the Castle, I remain your loving Smile, Kathleen Robinson. (I am very glad indeed to hear from you again Kathleen. I thought you would be pleased to see a letter of your own in the paper again. I shall look forward to receiving something from vou for the Gift Cupboard, Yours S.Q.)‘ Manaia. Dear Smile Queen, —I have not written to you for a long time so I must write now. We all call the calf Maisie, the name you gave us for her. We have four calves of our own and one we are rearing for another man. I have a lot of cigarette cards and brother is looking at them now. My grandfather is going to send us over two hundred, so we will have a lot to look at then. We have finished getting our ensilage in now and we are glad. I have found a lot of birds’ nests this year. As this is all the news I will close with love to you and all the fairies at the Castle. Edna Wallace.

P.S.—I am sending a piece of poetry with this letter and it is called “The Bus.”

(I am glad the name suited Edna. It is sometimes difficult to think of an appropriate name when one does not see the calf. Most animals have an individuality of their own when you know them and then naming them comes easier. Thanks for the poetry, which is quite good in a “different” way. Yours S.Q.) Meremere. Dear Smile Queen, —Now while I have time I will write to you. \Ve finished our exam on Friday. I will see if I can find you a small piece of poetry this week, and I hope it will be in the paper on Saturday.. Mum and Dad are out in the garden putting in some lettuces. Please excuse me writing in pencil as we have no ink now. A lot of my mangolds are up. They are the ones I planted for the competition. My little sister’s birthday is one the 28th of this month, she will be four. Have you ever read the book called “The Tapestry Adventure?” I have just started to read it and it is really good. I remain your loving Smile D-ora Coltart. (No, I have not vend the book Dorn. Thanks for the poetry; it is quite suitable. I hope you hear good news about the exam. Yours S.Q.)