LETTERS

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12382, 27 February 1926, Page 16

LETTERS

. Dear Fairiel,—l am glad, yet I am sorry to i, back at school. Our class went for' a nature study walk down the beach to-day. It was our school picnic at Day’s Bay on Saturday. It was a lovely dav over at the" hay .. . . scratch 1 scratch 1 . . . o-o’ei! I am sandfly bites all overl They axe simply awful. Good-bye till nekt time. I am nearly asleep. I have entered for'the, competition.— Your laving ell, s ■ „ lAN. lan Keay, Roseneath.

Dear Fairiel,—Just a few lines to tell you that I have tried very hard to get the six boys names. I am settling down to work at school as I. have been promised a trip to a farm if I pass, and I am looking forward to it.

I saw the Japanese warship coming in, but did not go over it. I am sorry i did not write last week, but the paper was mislaid, and so I could not do ‘ the painting on Monday night.— Love to all, Fairiel, FRANK. Frank Wooller, Seatoun.

Dear Fairiel, —I had a lovely Christmas, and I hung up a pillow-case, and I got it full. I got a lovely big doll (my pet), and with real hair and eyelashes, and goes to sleep. The Monday after Christmas I went into Wanganui, and stayed two weeks with my brother. I went up 'the lift on Durie Hill, and then I climbed the soldiers’ memorial, and you can see for miles up and down the coast. I went to Castlecliff for a picnic on the beach, and had a lovely day. I also went up St. John’s Hill to Virginia Lake, and I saw all the ducks and swans and flowers. It is a lovely place. My brother lives on the river bank, and my sister-in-law took us to the river to the boat races. It was grea,t fun watching the motor-boats towing the surf boards' with men on them! - Most of thevjnen fell off.

When 1 came home I went up to my other brother’s farm for a ,week. I drove up with my brother, and came back by train. My brother’s farm is eight miles from here at Nukumrua. 'We went to Hawera, and went to the park. Dear Fairiel, have you ever been there? It is really lovely. There were a lot of children in the swimming, ponds, and if I had had my suit T would have been in too! I went through the fernery which is beautiful, and when we went from there we climbed tho water tower. It is very high and hard to climb. You get a beautiful view of tho country. . . Egmont looks quite close.

Now back to school, and we have to walk because our pony is lame.—l remain yours, dear Fairiel. MOLLIE, Mollie Winter, Maxwelltown.