QUAINT AMERICAN LETTER.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18548, 5 November 1923, Page 8

QUAINT AMERICAN LETTER.

A SCHOOLGIRL'S REQUEST. "RELIC" OF NEW ZEALAND. * Judging by a latter which the Mayor of Wellington, Mr. R. A. Wright, M.P., has just received from a high school girl in £he United States, American school children must have some remarkable impressions of what New Zealand is like, tho customs and character of its people, and generally how the people of the Dominion exist and the occupations they follow. The letter is guileless in its innocence, and the writer is evidently under the impression that such things as agricultural implements are unknown siere, and that this country is so far from civiliration that, modern methods of travel are unheard of. The letter contains the following " Carsonville, Michigan, 'U.S.A t . September 25, 1923. City Major, Wellington, New Zealand. Dear Sir, —Yon will probably be thinking it fanny of me to be writing to you. I am a high school girl iii yea. -r age. I live on a twelveacre farm miles south and three miles cast of a small village called Carsonville. Carsonville is in the lower peninsular of Michigan, and is in tho thumb of tho mitt. •' There are a few aeroplanes around here. Did you over see one? The Great Lakes which surround Michigan make it much easier for foreign and domestic commerce to be carried on for ships can sail through the Great Lakes and down the St. Lawrence river to the Atlantic Ocean. " What kind of schools do you hava? (1) What are they like? How many seasons have you? (2) Write and tell me all about your country, farming, herding. and manufacturing. "We are going to have an exhibition jSooii. Would you please be so kind as to send some relic or anything from your island to put up for exhibition. Hilda Good all, Carsonville, Mich., U.S.A. I\S. Please send some relic. Thanking you in advance. H.G." The Mayor savs ho will send the young lady a " relic " of New Zealand, one of the City Council's year books, which contains a good deal of information regarding the city, some pamphlets of other centres, and other general information which will enlighten the school girls of Michigan as to what New Zealand is like.