From the Kiwi’s Nest

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XV, Issue 125, 2 May 1925, Page 10

From the Kiwi’s Nest

COMPETITIONS FOR OUR YOUNG FOLKS

THE CHEMIST’S SHOP. I’d love to bo a chemist, And have a tiny shop, And measure out the medicines, Very slowly. drop by drop. 1 like his row of bottles, 1 like tho way he jiacks His parcels with whit© paper And gay red sealing-wax. But of all tho great attractions, There’s none 1 love so well As the bowls of coloured water— Th© ones he does not sell. Letter from the Chief “Kiwi” DEAR KIWIS,— i NOT HER happy hour have 1 spent, in reading all tho very good essays which have com© in this week. I am so glad that, despit© your application to school work, you have spared time for letters to the Kiwi Column—such well-written letters too—every one of them. “The History of a Diamond Necklace,” sent bv Mu iam James, wins th© prize, so, Miriam, another little adventure is added to all th© others which this necklace experienced. Yon have used your imagination, and you writ© well. Bo very careful not to overstep th© word limit. Ruth Small: Another well-written essay Ruth, containing much interest. It was nice to have such a satisfying expedition. Sophie Davidson: Good girl to have continued that, holiday trip for our benefit! 'Die thermal regions are really

very wonderful, and the blue and green lakes so close together, not th© least of tn© wonders. Gwen 1' lorancc: 1 had wondered, Gwen, if any of my Kiwis would take Anzac Day for their subject, and 1 was ever so pleased to find that you had done so. It was a day of bravery, sadness and glory, which we should never forget. Jean btevens’ thoughts, too, had drifted to something that she had heard of th© Great War. I do hojie that tho bravo littl© donkey survived and was taken care of, so that he would later be able to enjoy peace after his gallant rescue work. Marjori© Ward: You write so well, Marjorie, for your years that 1 can’t imagine why you didn’t send in essays long ago. Keep on, now that you have begun. Tongoio must be a lovely place at which to have a picnic, and 1 am sure that you had a thoroughly enjoyable time. Thank you for telling us about it. Mervyn Bateman: I have awarded your essay a certificate, because it is well written, hut 1 can’t congratulate you on th© subject chosen. Too gruesome. Try again, Mervyn, but choose a more uplifting subject. Doris Harper: If they ar© not too belated, Doris, I offer m v best wishes for many happy returns of your birthday. Y’ou write a good essay, but you don’t get enough of yourself into it. By not getting yourself into it, I mean that many of th© words used seem to hav© been culled from books and this makes your work too stereotyped. Keep on writing and you will do well. Marjorie Bateman: So pleased to have a letter from you, Marjorie. What a happy picnic you had, and how you must all have loved it, after having been cut off for so long from any jolly

gatherings. J agre© with you that apples are mor© enjoyable when not “bolted.” lam glad you made a name lor yourself in the three-legged race. Marion Preston-Thomas: What an adventure tor a gold tooth to have—surely something of an adventure, too, for the fowl that swallowed it. 1 hope that th© gold tooth has been restored to its original duty of adornment, 1 Verna Dew: Another Kiwi who has been celebrating a birthday. Many happy returns, dear. I hope you will write and tell m© about th© party, when it eventuates. I am sure your tea set is delightful. Take lots of care with it, Verna. Barbara Ebbett: And I wonder so much what you hav© inside that wonderful play house, Barbara. Have you a toa set, too, and a blue-eyed doll named Amelia? You must tell me all about it som© time. Jean Ebbett: Sorry your imagination received such a ghost fright. Jean, but it was a lovely adventure, was it not, and I wonder if you, like Kiwi Ruth Small, found the beautiful peacock’s feathers. I want to acknowledge a very nice not© from Kiwi Thelma Sudfeldt, thanking mo for her prize. J. Holderness (who always omits to sign his first name and so can’t qualify for an award) sent in two riddles. Wo only accept one, J. The dragon devoured an entry from Freda West, which had no age attahced. and h© says that he is somewhat tired of the riddle (Rauma Godfrey) about a newspaper being black and whit© yet red all over. He w’ould appreciate a change of diet. He becomes somewhat thinner, most Kiwis having given scrupulous attention to their entries lately. —Until next week. CHIEF KIWI.