EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 26 November 1938, Page 12

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I have one brother and two sisters, i Joy and Margaret. We have a canary : j Grandma gave us last Christmas. We j also have a little dog named Tiny. We have a lot of fun with him. I like playing with my doll Joan, i j My brother and sisters have a lot of j j ; fun playing houses. I help Mummy do some of her work and sometimes I help her with some sewing. —Lois Palmer (7 years), Hira. I have not a real hobby, but I play with my doll. Her name is Elizabeth Ann Allan. One of my friends gave me some knitted clothes for my doll. I am very fond of colouring pictures; I do a lot at home and some at Sunday School. I also learn dancing. On wet dgys I make clothes for my , doll or colour pictures. At school 1 1 j read books in my spare time. —Pauline Allan (9 years), j Collingwood. , My hobby is mechanical things and • stamps. I like boats, tractors, trucks and farm implements such as shearing | machines. Sailing boats is interesting! too. I make and rig my own and have : many different kinds. The one I like | best is a cutter-rigged boat which will ; sail a long way with the wind. She has a bowsprit and her sails will go up and down. I have a transom fastened across the deck. Over the back a boat swings on two wire davits and it will lower up and down. There is also a capstan amidships which has bars and will wind up the tiny anchor. It took me a good while to complete her. I have some other boats, some of which go by sail and some by rubber bands. I am thinking of making a stern-w-haler driven by a rubber band. I am making a scrapbook of tractors. —Lister Salisbury (10 years), Pokororo. i 1 like the summer because of the j 'long pleasant evenings in which I get) i lots of play. In summer, too, I get a i i good deal of swimming. Then, too, I j I like the early morning rise to pick toj matoes in the glasshouse. Summer | ! brings us fruits too, plus, apricots and J ■ peaches, so hurrah for summer. —David Shirtliff (8 years), R.M.D., Wakefield. I go to Dovedale School; sometimes we walk and sometimes we get a ride. Susie is my little sister. She is only a little girl but she will not stay at home. We have five cows, and grow tobacco. First we get them in boxes. Then we plant them in the hotbeds. When they have grown to a certain j size then we plant them in the paddock.; When the leaves are ripe we pick them i and they are dried in a kiln and then j sent away. —Thora Kenyon (9 years', Thorpe. I get up in the morning and make a' cup of tea for my Auntie and then 1 milk the cow and separate so that I can make butter. Then I wash the i separator and put it out in the open air j Ito dry. After that I have my break- : r j fast which is all ready for me, and' ’ I don’t I enjoy bacon and eggs! —Lawrence Jane (12 years). Queen Street, Richmond. II * . . * [ j At last it is summertime and we will J , | be able to go to the beach for picnics! , I and go swimming. I love being in the , i water although I cannot swim yet, but , I am going to learn one of these days, j , We usually go down to the beach and , take our dinner with us. Summertime I

1 is when we hear the birds singing most, 1 j and the gardens are very gay with all | : colours of flowers and the trees are 1 lovely and green and in the paddocks 1 we see wee lambs jumping about and ! J playing with one another. j Sometimes the days are very hot. / | then all we want are ice-creams to I cool us down. This is also the time (he fruit trees are covered with fruit — apples, peaches, apricots and goosei berries; also the strawberries and j 1 raspberries ar«j ripe. —June Eginion (8 years), Thorp Street, Molucka. | I can play chess a little and I have . a black and grey Persian kitten whose [ name is Pete, also a white one with j : black and grey back, legs, most of her * 1 face and her tail. She has soft white! • paws and I call her Patty. 1 have a good many books by Thcim- • son Seton. These books are treasures > of modern prose, so I value them. They , are about animals, telling their lives r simply but with much feeling. I shall i tell you about others next week. —Janie O’Brien (11 years), Box 35, Murclfison..