FUN AMONG THE BREAKERS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23009, 9 April 1938, Page 8 (Supplement)

FUN AMONG THE BREAKERS

■ M " . - s 'X>ear Anne Shirley,—l have net quite recovered from measles yet, and, as this disease has become quite serious in the distriet, we are having three weeks holiday from school. 1 go to. High School and am in Form in. tO U l What would you liko to be if you couldn't Ibe a human being? I don't kfcow if you would, but I think I should like to be a seagull. I'd lpre.towheel and cry and fly about in; the air. To bl able to go away, away up into the blue and: look down, but perhaps it wouldn't .be set marvellous. after ,all. Anyhow, I'm pretty sure I wouldnt enjoy the. worms.- . ' ■ - Have you ever been as far north as tms? I don't suppose so. .We have a •lovely beach (oT ; at least coast,- for it ia very rocky) on the East Coast, and one/jdaypny, cousin and I went*' right round until we came to a gulch-way. This is a passage-way which is cut out of the rock and up which waves crash with tremendous force. It is great fun to wait on the rocks near by and dash away quickly when a huge ''wave thunders up and breaks on the side, sending spray 20 feet iuto the air. .Anyhow, this was what wo were doing.• ; We didn't always 'escape the descending water. Oh dear, no! It usually caught us, but as we had old clothes on we didn't worry. After a while we got so wet that we had to go home, and, if it hadn't been forbidden, we should have returned next day so enjoyable a time did We have.—Your sincere (friend, Gladys Matthews, A wail ui North. ~