LITTLE SOUTHLANDERS’ CHRONICLE

Southland Times, Issue 24769, 13 June 1942, Page 7

LITTLE SOUTHLANDERS’ CHRONICLE

My dear Cousins, This week I want to remind you of some of the rules of the Chronicle. Now that our space is so small they cannot be published regularly, and some of my cousins have forgotten them. The most important one, is that your name, degrees, age and address must be on every entry, painting and puzzle competitions included. The next in importance is that stories and poems intended for publication must be written on one side of the paper only. Letters and puzzle competitions may be written on both sides. Another rule you sometimes forget, is that entries must be sent in by the set closing date, which is usually a Monday. The book prize-winner in the special native bird puzzle competition is Grace Thomas. Prizes of membership to the Forest and Bird Protection Society have been won by: Valerie Fox, Gladys Laird, Lois Cunningham, Lorna Gilmour, Kathleen Maloney, Victor Jones, Mary Scott, Dorothy Mac Gibbon, Shirley Prentice, Hilda Wilson, Jean Coster, Edith Pullar, Isabel McEwen, Bob Mac Gibbon, Flower Hill, Moira Cairns, Myrtle Broomhall, Doreen MacMillan, lan McEwen, Grace Thomas.

Your loving,

ART CLUB 113th COMPETITION: Drawing for all cousins: "Jack Frost.” Prizes of 1/- to Cousins Valerie Fox M.A. (11). Audrey Sheed (16). 114th COMPETITION: “A Fishy Tea.” Entries close MONDAY. June 22.

TO A BIRD

—PRIZE— Ohl 100k 1 up there against the sky. At the tree with the mossy bark. For perched up there on the topmost bough, Is a happy and joyous lark. , Why are you singing, happy bird? Perhaps because the day has been sunny. Or is it the spring-time in the air, And the bees are making honey? Over there In yonder field, Are your family in the nest, Now fly away home, as shadows fall. And the sun sinks low in the west. —Prize of 1/- to Cousin Elva McQuarrie (14), Gore. —PRIZE— Ohl little feathered songster sitting in that tree, You look so happy, chirping merrily, Away up there beside you there are some eggs of blue, And a neat and tidy nest with some youngsters, too. Sweetly in the tree-tops you sing., so gay. And when I pass beside you, I hear you. every day. —Prize of 1/- to Cousin Hilda Wilson (12), 304 Tay street. —PRIZE— You cling and swing On a branch, or sing While the green leaves swing to and fro. You look so happy Way up there, So merry and bright I do declare. —Prize of 1/- to Cousin Lorraine Black (10), Nightcaps R.D. —PRIZE— Oh beautiful bird flying the blue sky, Oh how your voice rings as you pass by. Oh that I may join you, and fly with you too, So far up in the heavens so blue. When summer is over you can fly. To a different land with a brighter sky, And return when the sun is shining again, And you will be safe from the storm and the rain. —Prize of 1/- to Cousin Meria Clark, V.A.C. (12), Fairfax. COMPETITIONS 563rd COMPETITION: Story for all cousins: "The Lost Penny.” Entries close MONDAY, June 15. 564th COMPETITION: Poem for all cousins: "Trains.” Entries close MONDAY, June 22. ENROLMENTS Elza Cooke (10), 125 Conyers street. Gordon Mills (-10). 89■Islington street. Margaret Leys (6), 90 Kelvin street, i