THE HOLLOW TREE.

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1010, 28 June 1930, Page 31

THE HOLLOW TREE.

MESSAGeS FOR SUM BE AMS.

I v Th e UolLoxc Tree closes each | week on Wednesday at S p.m

Cathleen Fletcher, Glen Eden: The Little Thought would like to visit that enchanted spot where the four-leaved clovers grow, Cathleen. Thank you for your decorated letter. What care you took with the spider web in your painting. It looks very pretty. Yes, Gloria’s daffodil poem is one of her best. Scot Hunter, Ponsonby: Welcome, Scot. We are all glad you have become a Sunbeam. It will be your birthday next Tuesday. Many happy returns. Marjorie Thompson, Ellersiie: You discovered the people and the animals in that puzzle picture, Marjorie. Thank you for your competition painting. John Jamison. Mount Eden: There was great excitement in Happy Town when your letter arrived, John, and a ringing cheer went up from the Pixie Postmen. It is a pity you did not see the exhibition of paintings. That springtime Dne of yours with the birds and rabbits was on view and also the one with the boat and tin? swan in the foreground. Do you remember them? And let me breathe a secret; your famous Barkity Goat is still on thu wall. My best love to John. Lois Hendriksen, Ponsonby: Thank you for the weo story, Lois. Next time we have a story competition I hope you will aend an entry. How would you like to pay a visit to Fairyland? Rodney Rowlands. Takapuna: Your painting has arrived in Happy Town, Rodney. A package of love for this little man. Elsie Orams, New Lynn: What a pity you missed the mail last week, Elsie, but you made sure of a reply this week. I have left your love in the Hollow Tree for Cathleen Fletcher, ’ Olwyn Tetley, Olga Meyer and Zoe Harden. Yes, Gloria s last poem was very dainty. Margaret Norley, Whangarei: Your message has reached me, Margaret, and l hope v ••] will so or. be perfectly well Congratulations on your success in the J*opularity campaign. I watch your progress at every count and am delighted that you have so many votes to your credit. My best love to you ami Jean. Stuart Taylor, 80 Valley Road, Mount Eden: AU Happy Town was sad when we found that this little Sunbeam bad broken his leg and had gone into hospital. That was an unfortunate accident, Stuart, jam printing your address so that your Happy Town friends who read the Hollow "Tee may ha\«e an opportunity to write to you. A big armful of love' for my brave little soldier. Edwyna Stone, Onehunga: Your last message in the Hollow Tree, but tlie Woodpecker lias your name in his notebook, and you will never be forgotten in Happy Town. Did the weather clerk "end some sunshine for the wedding ? lie promised the Little Thought he would. I wave used that hidden jewellery in the puzzlers, with some additions concocted by the smallest Dixie Postmen. The {-title Thought is waving his hand to you. He has not forgotten all those special Stephen Heath. Sandringham: Thank >ou fur your letter. Stephen. You were very wise to bank that money because shillings soon turn into pounds when you save them up. You will like the clematis painting picture, I think. Oliver Jackson, Onehunga: This little lad is now a Sunbeam. 1 hope I shall soon hear all about you, Oliver. Joan Petterson, Whangarei: If you Still have that puzzle picture, .loan, you will Nnd the mother bv turning it upside down s he is tucked away in the curve of the goose’s neck You found the hidden Sunbeam. What fun if the hot cocoa makes you a roly-poly girl. You will nave to roll home every day from school Olwyn Humphreys, Mount Eden: fhank you for jour story and painting Ulwyn That was surely a kind blackbird. Melva Randell. Newmarket: The Little thought is singing that lullaby to all the flowers in his pressed ilower garden. Aielva. You managed to find the hidden Sunbeam. Clem Gothard. Epsom: Thank you for , tho jokes and riddles. Clem. They are Y Pr y amusing. .Some Happy Town love fw this hidrlic. Marie Bell. Auckland: Doctor Spring sunshine will make all the colas vanish. Marie, but, unfortunately, he canpot return to Happy Town until winter ** over. Thank you for entering a paintin 5- , You managed it very well. Shirley Martin. Auckland: A letter written In bed? This will never do. Little

girls legs are made for running about, and night is the time to be in bed. J am 1 so sorry to hear that you have had so S much sickness lately, Shirley. Yes, I i am sure you love Happy Town when you i are ill and Gloria will be delighted to i know how you watch for her poems. How i clever of you to win that prize for paint- ! T he Thought will be waiting I in Tiptoe Street for Enid, and the Woodpecker is guarding your kind wishes for Gloria Rawlinson, Jean Mclndoe. Cathleen Fletcher and Zoe Harden. Desmond Taylor, Mount Eden: Thank you for jour letter and for sending Stuart s painting. Desmond. That was certainly sad news. Don’t forget to let me know how lie is until he is able to write again, and please take him a golden wish from the Little Thought next visiting day. Ruth Underwood, Arapohue: My birthday? I used to keep it a secret, Ruth, but the Sunbeams were so curious that 1 had to tell them. It falls this year on the first Saturday in October. Thank vou very much for your painting and your newsy letter. The Woodpecker waifts you to send him a pheasant’s feather. Gloria Valentine. Glen Eden: A new , baby brother? Now, aren’t you lucky? : The Little Thought sends him a bright j smile. Yes. 1 1.• ruin, is a very ; “jolly little fellow.” He is my special : messenger and, when Sunbeams are ill, ! he peeps in at their windows and takes j them some Happy Town sunshine to make | them well.

Eileen O’Donnell, Remuera: Eileen has made the magic journey and we are all glad to greet our new Sunbeam. Woodpecker sends his kindest regards. Jean Mclndoe. Hamilton: Zoe is now at the Girls’ Hostel. Whangarei. Jean. ! have posted on your letter. Gloria has recovered from her cold and __ is again holding conference with her friends, the fairies. It is cold in Auckland, too. but never so cold as to be unpleasant. Wouldn’t the little Aucklanders be surprised to see snow? It would be a nirni days' wonder. ff My best love to Jean and Mick Ryan,' Pukekohe: Welcome, Mick and my best thanks for your stoij. i wondgr how long you have been ataUNolaeCraifl. ll M 3 ounf'Albert* 1 No more sore throats after that operation, Nola. The Little Thought says you will be muck stronger now. Your stories are delight-

ful and 1 am glad you let me see the one ! y° u thought of first. The author of that : fiowor-i>etal book sends his best love to a tellow scribe. ! J° a " DyKes. Thames: Welcome, little | .Miss Thames. The Little Thought has j I promised to call on you. He will be on j -™ Ul ,' window sill at seven o’clock next Wednesday morning, so please listen tor the soft flutter of his wings. When he returns to Happy Town he will know exactly what you look like. I hope you will soon write me another letter, Joan. Vou coloured that picture very cleverly Frank Hogan, Pukekohe: The Little Thought says that you and Mick Ryan must be friends, because vou are the same age and your enrolment forms arrived in the same mail. Welcome to Happy Town. Frank. Bertram McKay Rankin. Mount Eden: The smallest Pixie Postman has set out to look for the Tottie Wee Folk, Bertram If he can’t find any in Auckland lie is going to stow away in the guard’s-Afan on the Limited and look for tlienW in Palmerston North and New Plymouth. He will also take a package of Happy Town sunshine to Mummy. Thank you so much j for those violets and sprays of l'ern. The j Woodpecker sends his best wishes to Mickie. Reg Vause, Ellersiie: Your painting has : arrived, Reg. Some excellent work has ! come in this time. Margaret O'Kane, Auckland: “Quaker” I would be a good name for your little grey I pet, Margaret, or you might like to- call

| it “Prank.” You found the hidden SunI beam and I like your wee poem. I am so I glad that Happy Town means so much to you, L.ily McLeod, Whitianga: Welcome I Miss Mercury Bay. We are all glad you j have come down Tiptoe Street. What ini teresting pets yours are. Is Teddy a good I mouser? 1 June Anderson. Mount Rosklll: The j Little Thought loves your blue-eyed elf, I June. Your painting is very good A , warm welcome to this new Happy Town i 11 Errol Morgan. Kopu: Your grandfather was very kind to give you that foci- ; ball, Errol. What fun you have with it. | I><* you play according to Rugby rules? I think you will have your membership card now. My love to this little boy. Barry Laurenson. Epsom: Being in bed is very tiresome, isn’t it, Barry? I am so glad you have recovered. Yes, I am

sure you are making wonderful progress •at school. Can you add six and then len and twenty-one? The Woodpecker n an't. >’°, u fall over and cut your knees you l will have to wear knee pads like horses , Wouldn’t that look funny? A big par- | cel of love and smiles for my faithful Dagmar King, Huntly: Jean Mclndoe ! lives at 437 Victoria Street, Whitiora, j Hamilton, Dagmar. I am sure she would j love to hear from you. I am so glad j you have heard from Zoe. Doesn’t she ply , a busy pen? Dulcie Rennie, Epsom: That is a. quaint , little poem, Dulcie. Thank vou for ’citing me see it. Frances Kelly, Epsom: i feel all excited about that picture, too Frances. Is | | the little boy still riding on the moon? . j Thank you for letting me see hov to ! make a toy banjo. The Pixie Postmen are , all studying the instructions. 1 like your ! competition entry, and the Little Thought I ! was delighted with the picture you sent , i him. Wray Titchener, Devonport: And } j Mummy is bringing a new baby sister all i j the way from London? lam sure you ; ! must be counting the days,* Wray. It - | must have been the Pixie Postman j 1 with the yellow top-knot who set out * with Trevor’s membersnip card. Some- . times he plays marbles and forgets tlie [ address, or he goes peeping into puddles to see if his ton-knot is tlie same colour. : l gave the card to the tallest Pixie Post- ; ’ man the second time, and he declares 5 that he has delivered it.. Alsace Brown, Waiheke: i am unable i to find vour little friend’s name on the i roll, Alsace, hut I hope she will i come down Tiptoe St ret. And Audrey is , at Palm Beach? That is good news. No, it was a smaller Sunbeam who wrote that g letter. 3 Kathleen Ricketts, Newmarket: No, 1 am sure you will never forget Happy Town, Kathleen. It would be a sad day ’ if my little Drummer Girl could not find II Tiptoe Street. Thank you for that

: poem and the jumbled fruits. Your i ter is very neat this time. Meryla Webb, Mount Albert: Yes 1 i love ’ fire-gazing,” Meryla. That is one ) of the compensations of winter. Ping. • pong? Yes, I have played that. Those I little light balls sometimes seem be- ! witched, don’t they? I am glad you v<-re j able to enter a story, and I have left vour | love with the Woodpecker for Irene Reti ter, Nancy Russell and Hilda Jarvis Joyce Limozin, Rotorua: Your le:ter has arrived safely. Joyce. Thank vou for vour i drawing, the poems and that riddle. When ■ next you are sending riddles, poems, stories or jokes, please will you tell me where they are taken from. The Woodpecker was very interested in that tui. Olga Meyer, Hikurangi: How glad you must be to have your mother home, Olga. Did she compliment you on your housekeeping? That is a great honour for your brother. Perhaps you wouli like

to write to Doreen Keir, Waikaka Valley, Gore, Southland, or Audrey Seddon, Box 91, Lumsden, Southland. They are t oth Sunbeams. Barbara Fox, Jean Cook and Joyce Limozin will be glad to have your kind wishes. Leslie Vause, Ellersiie: I am so glad you like your prize, Leslie. The Little Thought said you would. Thank you for sending an entry for the painting competition. Dick Cranston, Mount Roskill: That puzzle is very interesting, Dick, but 1 could not use the pencil sketches. I have a supply of puzzle pictures and others useful 'for painting. I wonder if you will enter for the competition announced today? Norma Bennett, Dargaville: And you think Doctor Spring Sunshine must have been in a hurry to have left four leaves on so many clover stalks? That is just a little trick lie has, because he knows that children look for four-leaved clovers. You found the hidden Sunbeam, and I like your stencilled butterflv. Betty Mabey, Maramaru: The kittens are wise to creep in out of the cold. Betty. 1 think thev know where they will be well treated. Old newspapers make a warm bed for pussies. Mummy is lucky to have that beautiful brooch. The last term is a good time to start school. You would not need mittens if you began then My best love, wee one. I still have those “good luck” ribbons. Eileen Gracie, Glen Eden: The Little Thought was charmed with those exotic pressed leaves, ' Eileen, and l shall love to have the pot plant you are growing for me. Thank you very much for the photographs of you and Alan. I was Your new dog looks a splendid playfellow. Jessie Clothier, Hamilton: Yes, the Little Thought loves flowers, Jessie. He thinks they are all his brothers and sisters. He will visit. Hamilton to watch your daffodils shaking out their frilly skirts. Many happy returns of your j birthday. Pat Bassett, Kaikohe: What fun you i have teaching Jinks to jump. Don’t let him buck you off. Catching sparrows with a sieve never seems much of a success because they simply won't go under the sieve, will they, Pat? Happy Town is famous for its stories, but that is because the Little Thought knows the kind you like to read. Victor Taylor, Grey Lynn: You have! taken great care with your painting, Vic- I tor, and it looks very pretty indeed. Didn't you feel creepy when you were painting the spider? Some llappy Town love for this little boy. Gwen Cleaver, Grey Lynn: Yes, you may send me some riddles, Gwen, and please will you tell me where they are from. I hope you will have a happy time at the Brownies' concert The Little Thought sends a. smile to Audrey. Helen Douii, Grey Lynn: Your story has reached me by Pixie post, Helen. There are some delightful talcs this time. Tcm Bassett, Kaikohe: A saddle, a bridle and a cover for your pony. Lucky Tom and lucky pony. llow kind of Mummy and Daddy to bring home such a wonderful present. And vou have u house in the tea-tree that you call Westminster Abbey? J should like to see it, ! Tom. What a happy time you have in your part of the world. Ricardie Hawke, Kingslanri: Welcome, Ricardie. I hope you will often be peeping into the Hollow Tree. What sort of competitions do you like? Lois Eden. Ponsonby: “From a new Sunbeam, ’’ cried the middle-sized Pixie Postman, taking a letter from Lois out of his mailbag. There was a painting enclosed, too. The Happy Town people send their greeting to Lois. Evelyn King, Te Papapa: The Little Thought says you will be very happy in your new home, Evelyn. He wants you to . send him some wild flowers for his pressed | flower garden, but not too wild in case j tl . ie . y s \ tart quarrelling with his other Hannah Beaton, Ponsonby: Your com- • petition picture has arrived. Hannah. The Woodpecker sends some lucky wishes tc his little friend. Thelma Ellis, Otahuhu: “From Thelma Ellis, Otahuhu. She’ll be astonished that I knew.” Thus the smallest Pixie Postman as he delivered a certain painting. Robert Saunders, Morningside: Welcome, Master Morningside. How long have you been reading our page? Jocelyn Harvey. Herne Bay: Another new face. We are all delighted to welcome Jocelyn. Joyce Orams. New Lynn: That drawins i game was quite simple, Joyce. An easy ! way to work it out was to place a dot * where each line had to go. A cat was: watching the hole in the wall. Florence Swinbank?, Hikurangi: Thai was a horrid thing to happen, Florence. You should see a doctor if your nose continues to bleed. I do hope it will not behave like that again. You are a dear little girl to write to me before leaving

for school. A big- package of kind wishes for our faithful Florence. Dorothy Cooper, Elierslie: Thank yov for answering the Competition Hell Dorothy. Your picture looks very attractive. Nancy Jones, Glen Eden: You founc the people and the animals in that puzzle picture, Nancy. Some Happy Town lov« for this new Sunbeam. Margaret Thomson, Parnell: You: painting is very good, Margaret, and i arrived quite safely. The Woodpeckei is glad to see your name in the Hollov Tree. Alison Milsom, Auckland: What a de lightful letter, Alison, and how cleverlj you have written your story. Yes, th< kittle Thought often sends messages t< Sunbeams, and he sends you a pink am. gold wish wrapped up in a poppy petal. He is delighted with the playmate who stepped out of your letter. Pen-friends are the Sunbeams who write to each Other. Would you like one to correspond with? A warm welcome and a Happy Phyllis Hodgkinson, Grey Lynn: Yours is a. rare piece of work, Phyllis, and the golden duck and spider web have enchanted the kittle Thought. He thinks it. must be a fairy picture. I am so glad you have discovered the route to Happy Town Betty King, Mount Eden: “A little girl called Hetty King has stepped out of a fairy ring: with fairy shoes upon her feet, she’s waiting now in Tiptoe Street.” The kittle Thought has made a wee song for you, Betty. Thank you for sending a painting. Richard Taylor, Dargaville: Thank you for your two entries, Richard. They are very good, kittle brother’s card will soon reach him. Cyril Vause, Elierslie: Thank you, Cyril. 1 have entered it in the competition. Helen Lietz, Auckland: Tap. tap, tap. Xo, that’s not the Woodpecker: it’s a little girl called Helen with a picture for the Dawn Lady. Merla Cleaver, Grey Lynn: Thank you for vour letter, little one. I enjoyed reading all about your uncle’s party. The Pixie Postmen love Brownies. They think they are some relation. Doris Bovett, Te Aroha: Both entries have arrived, Doris. A Happy Town

thought for this faithful Sunbeam. Noreen Cullinane, Frankton Junction: “This wee girl is six years old, and lives at Frankton, I am told. To Harpy Town a welcome warm." “You peeped at her :

enrolment form." Two of the Pixie Postmen are talking about you, Noreen. Can you hear them? David McDonnell, Waiuku: Your painting is very troo«i. Master Waiuku, and you solved the Lucky Hans picture. Thankyou also for .sending a riddle. Ellen White, Remuera: A story and a painting from Ellen. My best love and to this little Sunbeam. L. Chambers. Mount Albert: Thank you. Miss or Master Mount Albert. Your j painting has arrived. Beverley McLennan. Ellerslie: “Where; is my nami ?” asks Bet ei fey. * re : * is,” answers the Woodpecker, “and I hope; you will often find it in the Hollow Tree.” Molly James, Devonport: ‘‘.She and the Dawn Lady are twins!” exclaimed the Little Thought “Their birthdays are on exactly the same day.” Now, isn’t that a coincidence, Molly? Thank you for your pretty picture. Dorothy Doust, Mount Eden: The last message in the Hollow Tree this week, i but the Woodpecker takes good care of then. all. r was glad you were able to ! send a painting, Dorothy. .