LITTLE SOUTHLANDERS’ CHRONICLE

Southland Times, Issue 25691, 28 June 1943, Page 6

LITTLE SOUTHLANDERS’ CHRONICLE

My dear Cousins, The weeks are flying past, and before we know where we are, Hospital Day will be here again. This year gifts will be even more difficult to buy, so I am asking you to begin planning now to make war-time Christmas gifts yourselves. Think of the grown-ups as well as the children and make as many gifts as you can. It is during the winter evenings that you will have more time for your hobbies, so make one hobby toy-making, sewing, or knitting, and set to work to prepare a good stock of Christmas gifts. There is a very tiny picture for you to colour this week, so you will have to be careful. The fairy queen is a dainty person and heavy brush strokes or careless painting will not help to win a prize. Have you heard of small paintings called “miniatures”? This is a miniature picture of the fairy queen. Your loving

COMPETITIONS

135TH ART, CLUB COMPETITION: Prizes of 1/- to Cousins Ida Robins, Pauline Schultz, Margaret Menzies. 136TH ART CLUB COMPETITION: Colouring competition for all Cusins: “The Fairy Queen.” Entries close TUESDAY, July 6.

574TH COMPETITION: Poem for all Cousins: "Frosty Mornings.” Entries close TUESDAY, June 29. 575TH COMPETITION: Story for all Cousins: “Out in the Rain.” Entries close TUESDAY, July 6.

ENROLMENTS

'Joyce Sutherland (9), Alexandra Buildings, Dee street. June Sommerville (12), 171 Esk street. Margaret Keach (8), Oteramika, Section 3, Otara R.D.

HOW TO JOIN

Send your name,'•age, date of birth, and address to Cousin Betty, The Southland Times, and an enrolment card will be posted to you.

PENFRIENDS: Cousin Mary Duncan (14), 31 Canning street, Gore (interested in singing and reading), and Cousin Pauline Schultz (13), 34 Canning street, Gore (sports, singing, the piano), would like penfriends anywhere,

WRITING LETTERS —PRIZE— Writing letters is very interesting, especially when I have plenty of news. If I am writing to friends overseas I tell them of our beautiful scenery, of the lakes, mountains, rivers and bush. My pen-friends in other countries are very interested in our Little Southlanders page and I tell them of the stories and poems we write and of the marks we gain each week. If I am writing to a friend in New Zealand it is not so easy, but I can generally interest them with our family affairs and what we do at school and the games we play. If we do not write letters we do not get any, so I write quite a number of letters to friends and I like receiving the answers. —Prize of 1/- to Cousin Myra Salton (13), 11 Traford street. Gore. —PRIZE— During the cold winter days when I am not allowed to go outside I often write to my friends and relations who are far away from my own home-town. When writing these letters I tell my friends about school and how Invercargill is progressing. Besides writing these letters, I always do my Little Southlander’s work, which I enjoy the most of all. I like to write and tell my friends about the drawing and competitions I do for the Little Southlander’s Chronicle. I have not a pen-friend like some boys and girls because I have plenty of letters to write to my cousins and friends. I think letter writing is a very pleasant and educating pasttime. —Prize of 1/- to Cousin Agnes Aitken (12), 335 Elies road. —PRIZE— • I love writing letters, but even better is waiting for a reply. The person I write to most is Cousin Betty, and I have written her about 29 times this year. There is always plenty of news to tell and even if I have no news. I am sure the one who receives the letter is pleased just because I have membered them. I write to my little friends out at West Plains and it is good to hear how they are. One day I received two letters, so just imagine how excited I was. —Prize of 1/- to Cousin Flora McDonald, A.C. (9), 161 Chelmsford street. —PRIZE— When I am writing a letter I sit down with pen, ink and paper. I start: ‘‘Dear Sue—,” then I don’t know what to put next, so I chew the end of my pen and think, “Ahl I have it! I know what I’ll write.” I finish: ‘‘Your Chum, Paddy Grant-Ussher.” I write “Paddy” because that is my "nickname and Mum and Dad call me that. Sometimes I add a P.S. because I have left something out. Now I write another one. This time to Joan. I can put the same as in Sue’s. I’ve finished it so I’ll write another. This is the most important. It is to Uncle Jim who is over in Egypt. I tell him everything I can think of, for he’s my favourite uncle and he is so far away from home. It is nearly bedtime. I had better hurry. “Come on, dear,” says mum. “Haven’t you finished yet?" “Yes, I’ve written two others besides this one to Uncle Jim.” "I’m writing to him tonight so you may share my envelope. They can be posted in the morning." —Prize of 1/- to Cousin Marrianne GrantUssher (13), Longbush P.O.