The “Young Northlander” Is Four; Our Club Is Two

Northern Advocate, 28 December 1937, Page 2

The “Young Northlander” Is Four; Our Club Is Two

Water Street, Whangarei. 28th. December 1937. Dear Northlanders, And what sort of a Christmas did you have? Heaps of turkey and heaps of pudding? I hope so. We’re very excited about today’s page. You see this is the second anniversary of the founding of the Kupe Club. The “Young Northlander’’ is four years old, bn* the Kupe Club was inaugurated in our New Year’s page just two years ago. Four years old, our page is really past the *todd ling stage. Who, we wonder, can remember when it was only half a page in the “Northern Advocate”? Haven’t we grown since then? More and more Northlanders have flocked to our ranks. More and more interest has been taken in our doings; and the Editor has given us more and more space. The success uf our page has been phenomenal. I was chatting to the General Manager the other day. “You know, Kupe,” he said, “when your page.first beganj I thought we’d try it as an experiment. And now I know we couldn’t do without it.” How many readers, we wonder, have travelled the whole distance with us—have seen the* ‘‘Young Northlander” grow from those small four ; columns first to a full page and finally to a page and a-half a week? Time roils on and 18th birthdays come round. And yet we get an occasional letter telling how past members are still as interested as ever :in the good old page. That, perhaps, suggests an old members’ club—and ~ in this connection Princess Raranga will have something special to say in her letter today. . |At Headquarters we’re looking forward to the New Year. Our .membership has been steadily growing. With Happiness campaigns behind us, we know how well maidens and warriors can work for a good cause, and there is in Northland much that is worthy of our best efforts. And so we siep into 1938 confident that the Kupe Club will find much good work to do, and furthermore, will do it well. I' We’re all very happy in this Kupp Club of ours. These holidays I’ve , met more young Northlanders than ever before. They walk into the office and Immediately start chatting as if they’ve known me all their lives. It is a privilege ts> be a friend to so many young people, and my hope is that In the coming year I’ll see even more of you. Soon the New Year will have begun. I wish you all happiness; but there Is one thing to remember: true happiness can come only to those ; who bring sunshine into the lives of others. Kupe ' Rangatira, Northland Tribe,