NORTHLAND TRIBE

Northern Advocate, 28 February 1939, Page 2

NORTHLAND TRIBE

“Advocate 1 ’ Office, * Water St., Whangarei. | Tuesday. February 28. 1939. i m Dear Northlanders, = The S.P has his very first merit card. I’ve just | awarded it to him. | You remember how he used to keep us awake j at night the first few weeks after he came home? • Well, Plunket Nurse and ever so many other people | who really ought to know, promised he’d turn over | a new leaf by the time he was three months’ old. | The happy day was yesterday, and from his behaviour | lately I think there was really some magic about that • important “three months,” ’ j Anyway I slipped a red card into my typewriter | and made out a certificate of merit for “Turning Over « a New Leaf.” But he’ll have to wait until he can j send stories and contributions, and enter for the com- | petitions before he can get any more. ? And talking of competitions—did you see the | dreadful trick the Artist played on us this week? | But we all received an ice cream at his expense so i that was some consolation, and the competition is | one you’re sure to enjoy, so everybody’s happy | Princess was ever so curious to find out why I ■ wanted to know if it was wrong to be selfish. | “You’re not going to encourage followers to be « selfish, are you. Kupc?” she asked. * “Perhaps,” I said, and she went off in a huff r because she thought she had trapped me into dropping | a hint about the big surprise. ? “I think it’s selfish to have secrets,” she called | over her shoulder. i She may have had the last word, but I still have 4 the secret, iiaven’t I? | | i Ran ga lira. Northland Tribe. i