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Patea Mail, Volume XLVIII, 17 December 1926, Page 4

The - holiday number of the “Now Zealand Free Lance,' - ' which is jusi out this week, is obviously intended for the Dominion's home consumption. Its 72 pages are full of the Christmas holiday spirit, and from cover to cover it is replete with bright pictures, laughable cartoons, .whimsical verse, and amusing stories, all original, ami bristling with point and repartee. The handsome cover in three colours carries a design suggestive of “While the Billy Boils," and the full-page cartoon just inside the cov.»r shows Dad in his holiday blazer and flannels, taking forty winks —probably after bis exertions in chasing Kitty on the bowling green—and now at the mercy of a mischievous urchin. Both pictures form an apt prelude to the joyous programme which follows iu picture, rhyme, and story. “ Jayc-ss" lets himself go on “A Merry Christmas," Miss Nellie Scanlon piques one's interest with “Christmas Improved," and Mr. James Cowan does justice to “The Fortunate Islands." Ollier writers spin stories appropriate to the season, and there is a. rattling collection of jokes grouped beneath the heading “Over the Wine and the Walnuts." : Altogether, a first-class cight-penn 'ortb.