COUSIN BETTY’S LETTER

Southland Times, Issue 23828, 27 May 1939, Page 1 (Supplement)

COUSIN BETTY’S LETTER

My Dear Cousins,

Each week brings me news of clan activities and preparations for the bazaar. I feel that all my Little Southlanders, their parents and friends are taking an interest in it, and working ever so hard to make it a great success. Each clan has some special plan of its own for a stall, and each cousin is making articles for sale. The first contribution has arrived already, and makes the bazaar seem quite near.

A number of my cousins asked this week when it was to be held, and where. The date has not been set yet, but it will be some time in August, near to or during the term holidays. That means you have almost three months, or twelve weeks, to complete your preparations. As for the place, it will more than likely be the Victoria Hall where the last bazaar was held.

Some Little Southlanders living in North Invercargill would like to form a dan, Sf> if your home is in that part of town and you wish to become a member of a clan and have a stall at the bazaar, let me know, and a date will be arranged for the first meeting. And now about these pen-friend coupons. Eight people forgot the stamped addressed envelope, and one forgot the stamp this week. They are Cousins Patricia Mosley, Violet Officer, Marjorie Baird, Bob Scott, Margaret Billig, Dorothy Tippett, Patricia O’Brien, Esmae Henderson and Cora Pedlar. I cannot send your coupons away until I receive the stamped envelope addressed to yourself, so please let me have it at once. As the clans are so active at present with the members all working together, I think it might be a good idea if we had some clan pages. The members would combine, and send in sufficient material, i.e., stories, poems, jokes, riddles, bazaar hints and recipes and interesting paragraphs to fill one page of the Chronicle. Which will be the first clan to have a page of its own? Talk about it at your next meeting, and decide what you will write for' your part of it. Town or country? Where will the first Clan Page come from? Later we might carry the idea further, and have School Pages, Boys’ Pages, Girls’ Pages, Country Pages and Town Pages.

Have you any other suggestions? Bazaar ideas are pouring in, but do not forget the Chronicle when you are wearing your thinking caps, for you know that suggestions are always welcome,

Your loving