THE MAIL-BAG.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21118, 27 February 1932, Page 4 (Supplement)

THE MAIL-BAG.

Nancy Taylor: We nre pleased to welcome you to our Senior Circle, !Nancy, and 'X hope we shall receive many interesting contributions from you. The Christmas card painting was very good. Your badge has been posted. "Hazel Smith: Quite nil right to enclose letter with enrolment form, Hazel. Stamps are stamps nowadays! Poppy Hill: A five-mark card is marked as having been sent for your Christmas poem, and you have sixty marks to your credit. However, if you have only received one card for the two items, I will send another. Jack Gordon: A very interesting letter, Jack, which will be used. It took me back to childhood days, when we, too, kept silkworms. For many years I kept a skem or the beautiful yellow silk we wound oil the cocoons. A most fascinating hobby!

Vivienne Grey: I am glad you enjoyed our Sea Page so much—l too, thought the nhotos were beautiful, and we are very lucky indeed to be able to get .such line illustrations for our page. 1 here is not;hint to explain re tie enrolment form. H >ou read it, you will find instructions are plainly given. Tlie system of mark cards stars, will he explained next week. Ihe noem is quite breezy, and will be used when you have become a membei. Joan Schwarz: New members names are not published one by one as they join, Joan. Yau have to wait until a ' Uelt'onic In appears. Your name is published to-da., and a certificate of membership will be sent soon It is not necessary for you to wnto every week. Just, send a letter when you have something interesting to write about, or when there is a letter writing competition for girls of your age. I do not c.lll. for the system.of fancy pen-names for members of our circles. Many thanks fm pretty little present. Rogers Naylor: You must have had a busy time house-paint mg, Rogers, and I was much amused at your sitting P« BS > on the roof to v.-atcli you! 1 extremely inquisitive; they like to Know what is going on all the time. Florence. Morgan: You are easily at your best in the garden and nature poems, ami Die latest will be used as space pcinu Is. Please write name and address on e.uii item, as "they are used separately. (iwen Bradbury: Your name will be included in the next " Pen friends Wanted list. Joan Hill: I do not care about, return mi, sketches sent in for competitions. Jo? . »» I like to keep the best for our exhibit ion. . but will seo what f can do when the onlnc have been judged. Yours are very „ood indeed. Mavis McKenzie: Sonic of the snapshot.'! will be used, Mavis, so J cannot, return any until later. Pnl A mold sou: "Ode to a Lark" not quite up to publication btaudard. Ino last lilies aie weak: — "The good you did you never never l>?»rd; Yet what a life (would be, to be a bi)d. Eunice Tan!: There is a tine spirit, in "The f!lad Came." Lunicc. but the verses themselves are not good enough to print. The first verses arc the best: There's sunshine in the woiid to-day, And nil the birds are singivj. The flowers gaily nod u"d pl'iy. And bluebells sweet are ringing. There's sunshine in my heart fo-da.v, AVliPt'C youth anrl nipturn meet. And joybells iicc.n-to ring and say •• Xo time .in life so sweet. Mollie Bell: Items very good. Mollis, any will bo used. 1 never knew before that the black "woolly boms" turned into those ji'tle black butterflies! Owen O'Callaghan: Bernicc IJunt has written to soy she lias sent two letters to you at Oku ilia u Kn.-t, but nas had no reply. She would like you to write to her. Address: Radnor Road, Midhirst. Amy MacDcnald: Poem not. quite good enough to print, Amy. f am not asking tor any stories just yet. Keep anything you have until the " Clitic .er.ture 13 announced again. This is .or writei *il om sixteen up. It is lmpoK.'iblo »" <ntici?e everything pent in in tno ordinary wo.v, nn I receive dozens of stories and poems c.cij week. Florence Wright: W r e havo already yin your competition idea a couple of tones, but it was so difficult judging the entries Hint I have given it up. Ada Woods: Writing on both sides of the paper is not allowed. Ada. 'liiih is one of our most important iulc-3. LETTERS, SKETCHES, POEMS, ETC., FROM: Tlielma Rowlinson, Jean Carly, Tj. Stanton, Audry Mason, Ailsa .Tohnstone, Winnie McDonald, Ada Brntton, Margaret (lerrand, Joyce Burt, lOlsie Hay urn rd. Dorothy Morgan. Leslie Crago. Lorna Finlayson. Frances Spencer, Mary Davidson, Joan Handing, Earl Richardson. Hazel Smith. Olive Hall, Mollie Bell. Sissy Stark, Olive McCrae, Georgie Greenslade, Stuart Babbage, Lilian Floyd, Madge Dixie,