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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12643, 31 December 1926, Page 16

My Darling.,— Such a splendid thing is happening this week! My Magic Cheeroplane is coming for the Town Fairies and Elves, and we are going for a crulsa in the sky to wish the Country “Ring” a Happy New Year. The Cheeroplane is all silver and shining; it is trimmed with tosm, and the fairies and elves hay* silver bells or whistles,, and pink flags to wave. And this pretty pink cloud is' coming, too!

Anyone can come who likes but the best seats are for these elves and fairies who go in for the competitions because they write often —Delzia Stockley-Jones, Cludia Browne, Marjorie and Joyce Dinnison, Peggy Cook, Nellie Smith, Margaret Campbell, Joan Urquhart, ivy McGhie, Vera Barringer, Dorothy Maslen, Doris Golding. Bruce Marris is our observer, and Harvey Grapes, Raymond Weeber, Malcolm Watt, Jack Condon and Alan Shaw are coming too. (No, -you can’t see us all in the picture!) All aboard 1 Then off we go 1 Up, and away 1 Whop—oo 1 Here we are up in the clouds flying over the harbour, and the Tararua mountains, we’re to Joan Edwards’s at Cross Creek. Then off to Porirua to see Bessie Busch. There she is,

Happy New Year, Bessie! Wave! Now, up the Wairarapa Valley. That’s the lake all silvery below us. Look! here comes Featherston, and Herbert McLean getting ready for the lighthouse trip . . . Ring! Hello, Herbert 1 ... . And down litre’s Martinborough with Thelma Killick,- Beryl Hitching and Mollie Holland. . . Happy New Year, Fairies! Ring! and that’s Alfredton, where Bessie Percy lives—that’s her pony. Wave! and Carterton. Hullo, Amy Johnson. And Masterton . . Ring for Pat Cunningham. On we go! This is a pretty place, isn’t it? . . Here’s Hnmua, where the Cooks live in that big house <jn the hill. Joy’s away, but there’s Dawn, and Vyrn. . Wavel ' Oh, look at the hills and that lovely bush 1 This must be Mangamaire near Alfred Lund’s. Hello,. Alfred! How are the chicks? Quick, everybody, look out for Pongaroa. Such a splendid place for fairies and elves among the “tall ferns.” We must go slow here. Look! there's Betty Johnston’s, that’s their cow! . . . and there fairy-

auntie Pearl Berry and the Walsh’s place, and those trees are near McKay’s. And look at those lovely strawberries! They must be Terrence Williams’s. Wish we could reach them! Now then, everybody whistle and wave and .wish our “Tall ferns” a Happy New Year 1 . . . Aren’t those big snowy mountains close now? They were the Ruahines. This will be Dannevirke . . . Yes, there’s Audrey Drummond writing us a poem. Make her look up! ' Ring! On we rush! Here’s Matamau, and there’s Connie Shortlanu riding her bike. Hope she won’t fall off when she sees us! Blow I Coo-eel Con-nie! Oh, here’s a big blue river. Yes, it’s Waipukurau, and there’s the sun on top of the hill with all those queer 1 blobs. We must be careful not to

hit that! Our three best elves live here. I expect they are down by the river. Yes! 1 see them! There’s Watty and George! and the fat little one is Jim, and he’s pointing us out to Teddy. Happy New Year, Harrises ! Yes, they saw us. ... All get ready to wave to Olga' Anderson at Takapau! Wasn’t it flat and green. ' - Now 'everybody hold tight 1 We’ve got to go ever so far over mountains and lakes . . . That funny bpd-egg smell was Rotorua,'and here we are up in the King Country, looking for Wairere Falls and Gytha Higgie and Keith. That’s the house with all those lovely sweet peas in the garden! ! and there’s Gytha and Keith • and I Major the . pup. Wave,! Ring! Yes, they saw us too. . . . . ; , And now farther and faster than ever . . .hold ont There’s a ’normous big town coming . . . Oh,.it.was Auckland 1 and here we are up among the huge kauri trees searching . "for Aratapu where Archie and Edna -Taylor live. Hope they write, and tail us what they did on the farm an New

Year’s Day. •. .•. That’s their cow. Beauty. Everybody sing out Happy New Year, Edna and Archie! ■ "We’ve come all' the way from Wellington to see you 1 Good-bye 1 Round we whiz and rush back towards home again! Here’s Waiters, where we have a shy little fairy ... Goodness! we went right over the top of Mount Egmont, such a high snowy spike! . . . That .was Waitotara that rushed past when we waved to Alice Wroe. . . . And here comes Magwelltown, and there’s Fairy-anntie ■ Mollie Winter tobogganing down . a sandhill. Happy New Year, Mollie! Look! Wanganui! where Mollie's brother is in hospital. Wave to him! High over the river and along to Palmerston—there's Mollie and NancyC Nathan picking some of their lovely

roses. Happy New quick? Wave to Alma Mason at Tokomaru. And now we’ll race the train to Levin, where Jean and Mary McQueen live wi.tb those funny twins (no darlings, you can’t count us, we go so fast!) bnt we wish all of you and .Kola .Stanley- too, a Happy New . . . . Oh I wave to Ruth Willianis at. Mauakau, there’q the haystack. No: we aren’t going home yet. If you look down yon’ll see waves and waves and wa . . . Oh, we’ve got to" Christchurch! Look out, Bruce 1 We just missed that Cathedral spire! Round -we go! Ring! Happy New Year 1 Dick and Don Martin and Jeanyvonhe Ashworth! Now we’re on the way back 1 More snowy mountains, the Kaikoura’s this time, Snd loti' of rivers and hills. . Whoa! we’re passing. Picton. Whistle for George Ivajmy! .'. . i One more hop, and we’re over Cook Strait and back in Wellington! Goodness! I’m nearly pnt of ,breath, are yon? Hop down, everybody.'ana. trot home. Love from Cheeriel. P.S.—"Look out ’for our special seaside number soon!'