Film Fun At Onerahi

Northern Advocate, 27 June 1939, Page 2

Film Fun At Onerahi

Dear Princess Raranga

Onerahi

I have been intending to write to you for a long time, but I always forget. J was very sorry that you could not bo at the concert the other day. We used to have a small movie camera here, but it wasn't very goad. My brother used to lit it up in the room and as he wound the handle one of us would hold the piece of film which had been shown, or it would get caught up in the works and often burnt by the lamp. 1 think that the boy who had the film before us had an accident with it. as wc had to stop every few seconds to see what it was doing. There was a little boy at the pictures who was vei'y funny. His name was Sydney Rowlings. In the film about Miny, Meny and Moe, he called out just as one of them was taking the jam off the shelf. “Look out. Don’t take that jam. Put. that jam back.” He made the picture just like real. Another time when Kupe was showing the picture of the old car right at the end when the car (if you could call it a car) was in pieces, he said; “Look, he’s got a puncture.” It must have been a big puncture, don’t you think? I am a nice one to go for a holiday. I went to Auckland in the school holidays and on the second week I got the measles, so I had a week in bed. Are we going to have a knitting campaign this year or are you and Kupe too busy with the Centennial Scheme? Well, I can think of no more news just now so I will close.

I remain—a Follower, LAUREL STEWART. P.S. —How is the S.P. now, and how is Betty B. after her voyage on the bumpy Onerahi road. I am afraid she will be like the car in the film if she travels on this road much more. —Laurel.