"And Now, Goodbye!"

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22628, 16 January 1937, Page 8 (Supplement)

"And Now, Goodbye!"

DEAR BOYS AND GIRLS, ~ IT is not easy to write a farewell letter to friends with whom you have travelled the road for over ten years, so 1 will just tell you now how much joy I have had in the company of all our thousands of boys and girls—and their mothers and fathers, too!—during these years of happy companionship in the columns of Boys and Cirls. It has been my greatest pleasure, as well as my daily task, to prepare and arrange the long series of pages by which we have built up the children's department of the Herald, and I feel deep gratitude for the loyal and loving help you have given me in making our page a success * 1 am proud to remember all the campaicns in which the herald brigade has proved its sympathy with those in trouble, sickness, or need. Never once have We failed in a campaign, and many times has an appeal for funds met with a response that more than doubled our objective. In pur competitions our members have lived up to our page motto. " My Best Always. _ and their work, from the tiniest tots, to the seniors who art trying for their Doubly Distinguished " awards, has always been a credit to the page. I am sure you will carry on now in just the same spirit of loyal co-operation —and please, dear boys and girls, remember this important point—always address your envelopes now to the Edtior, Boys and Girls, but without any personal name I I am hoping to send you news of my travels from time to time, but there will be so many new and interesting features in the page that I must not take up space too often! , , i • 11 Now my love and thanks to you all. and will all those who have so kindly sent me " good-bye " letters please accept my warmest thanks for their good wishes. 1 shall keep in touch with the page while I am away, and look each week for the names of the girls and boys whom 1 have known for so long, and when 1 see a new M-B.G. award, or a D.M.8.G., I shall feel ever ao /// pleased that you have succeeded in gaining the coveted prize 1 \ ' Good-bye, and happy travelling to every voyageur in the year ahead, S from your friend, '