COUSIN BETTY’S LETTER

Southland Times, Issue 23989, 2 December 1939, Page 1 (Supplement)

COUSIN BETTY’S LETTER

My Dear Cousins, After consulting my Little Southlanders, the Matron of the hospital, and Father Christmas himself, I have decided on the date of Hospital Day. It is Saturday, December 16, and at 2 p.m. On that day we will ineet at the Dee street Hospital. First on the programme will be the prize-giving (prize-winners will be announced next week), and then after the arrival of Father Christmas we will visit the wards to distribute the presents which you have made or contributed. The last Chronicle of the year will be published on that day, and The Southland Times will not seem the same for the next six weeks. The first Chronicle of the year 1940 will appear on the Saturday after school begins for the new term. The results of the final set of Mind Sharpeners are on another page, so when you have added up your marks, make a list of them and send it to me. There is a prize for the one with the highest total, in addition to the prizes of 2/- for 750 marks. Writing of marks reminds me that I want .to congratulate two more Little Southlanders, Cousin Victor Jones M.A.C., M.M.S., who is now Master of Neatness, and Cousin Valerie Fox V.A.C. who becomes a Master of Mind Sharpeners. Make a note of the closing date of all the Christmas competitions and see if you can have your entries posted in time. There will not be a visiting day for girls next Tuesday, but those who have not returned their library books may bring them up Sally Staircase on Mbnday. The following week there will be special-visiting days for buying and wrapping Christmas presents for the hospital, on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. There will be another announcement about these visiting days next Saturday. The first entries for the Christmas stocking competition have arrived, and on the visiting day last week the girls began to prepare gifts for the Hospital. In no time at all the end of the term will be here, with its holidays and long days spent at the seaside, in the country, or perhaps in your own gardens. Do you know what we celebrate on the twelfth of this month? It is the fifteenth birthday of our page, though the Chronicle as you see it today has only been in existence since April 1937. When April comes there will be another birthday to celebrate. I will be seeing my town and country cousins on Saturday, December 16. Your loving,

Cousin Betty