BOY AND GIRLS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20420, 23 November 1929, Page 4 (Supplement)

BOY AND GIRLS

,% Speaking without thinking Is like shooting without aiming. —F'rom Joan Barker. " Fairlields," Tomarata, R.D.,' Wellsford. ! ♦ t >c=>u<= DEAR BOYS AND GIRLS: The first thing that will attract your notice to-day. I know, is the list, of prizewinners in the Nature Scrap-book competition. ' The . lucky ones wcl! deserve their prices, and I have made the list as long as possible, so as to give recognition and encouragement to the. patient effort of our members. There is a long Mail-Bag to day, so ■' this will be a short letter. It is time the younger folk had " Letterbox Comer," so letters may now be *ent by., girls hiid boys from seven to 12 years. Subject, " What I See on the Road to School." Half-crown prizes and pi-irk cards. Love to you all, from, lour friend, tyIRROR OF THE WORLD. Dear Mi?s Morton,—The part 1o which 1 instinctivoly turn upon opening tho Herald 33 the .cable page, containing items of novs j irom every corner ot" the globe—from Byrd's Antarctic camp to the •' Land of the Midnight Sun." On this page we lead of the full of governments, of pacts to outlaw war, of new inventions, of the health oi our King and hosts of kindred ■topics. It is a far call from the days of our grandfathers when news arrived here three months after it was " ucwh," to the present day when it. travels under oceans and across continents in a few minutes. .Where should we be now without the cable news? For out thing, business would be greatly hampered. What might have happened in August, of 1914? Possibly the result of the Great AVar would have been different. Fe.v people consider •the enormous work entailed on journalists in setting up such a page—working night and day' to present tho news on good and interesting style. The cable page has certainly earned its title: "The Mirror of the World."—Yours sincerely, Robert Gilmore, Savings Bank, Newmarket. Age 11. , ABOUT SCAMP. Dear Miss Morton, —I am going to tell you about my Pet. He is a littlo kitten called Sranxp and is nine and a-hnlf months old. His'namo suits him very well indeed, ior this spring, whenever I see him ho is •usually playiug with a piece of grass. I have been " playing with my ball a good deal lately, and Scamp often comes on to the lawn; with me. When I hit the ball •up into the air and it falls down on to tho ground again, Scamp goes to it, and taps it with his paw, then runs hack again, waitiug for my next hit and drop. This little pussy of mine always seems to bo happy. He usually has a purr ready. A more liveable, happy, mischievous kitten I do pot think you could find. When mother •takes his porridge out to him in the moru- , ing-, he runs round and circles round about her. Ho does not play when he is eating, though!— Your loving pen-friend, Beverley Williamson. Whangamata, via Waihi. Aced 0 years. A RAINY DAY. 7 Dear Miss Morton, —As 1 write the rain is pouring in torrents, and everybody is glad to remain indoors. This i 3 not the ease with; some children They have to railk in the cowsheds, morning and night, wet or fine. It is a healthy life. . Many children ride oil' horseback, to school, others walk, and in winter time it is no game walking two or three miles at a stretch. About a' week ago we had a severe fall of rain which resulted in the paddocks heing flooded ankle-deep and, in the depressions, nearly knee-deep Many of tho drains overflowed and in these the children played. ' Some children are fortunate enough not' to have to milk, therefore they have much more leisure time. On the whole the'eountry children are very strong and healthy on account of their daily exercise.—Your sincere pen-friend. Billy Davey, do Confly Bros.. Pukuru. R.D.. Te Kawa, Ago 11. ■