NOTICE BOARD

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 365, 5 March 1932, Page 18 (Supplement)

NOTICE BOARD

SPECIAL NOTICES. Autumn Page: March 12. Entries close on March 7 at 5 p.m. Aunt Hilda’s birthday falls on the 12th, a Saturday this year, and it will be a happy idea to celebrate it by having our Autumn Page. There will be prizes for: (1) Poem (about autumn). (2) Short Story (also about autumn). (3) Drawing. Other copied contributions if marked “ copied ” may be sent in, and make a point of seeing your name on our special Autumn Page. The finest birthday surprise I can have is a really lovely Autumn Page, so please each one rally and support the Circle. Easter Page: March 26. All Nations’ Fair (for distress relief) : King Edward Barracks, April 6,7, 8 and 9.

MENU PUZZLE. Can you find what was mentioned on the dinner menu? First name the objects, placing the names in spaces

numbered 1. Then follow the subtraction of certain letters as indicated by No. 2. Then add letters as called for by No. 3, and finally in space No. 4, by transposing the letters, find what was on the menu.

“ DADDY-LONGLEGS.” What Yvould become of agriculture at Home if it were not for the assistance of birds and beneficial insects to counteract the noxious pests that would otherwise lay waste our meadows and pastures? Occasionally we find farmers complaining of the damage done by rooks, but it is doubtful whether they do nearly as much- harm as they certainly do good. Watch a flock of rooks and starlings at work on the meadow, and it will be found that their principal quarry is the slaty-black grub known as the “ leather-jacket,” one of the most destructive root-eaters. Many folk fail to realise that these pests are the larvae of that harmless-looking insect the crane-fly, otherwise, “daddy (or Jenny) longlegs,” or “ spinnin’ Jenny.” As the female flv dances over the grass in her apparently aimless flight she pauses an instant, leaves an egg among the grass stems, and continues until she has laid all her store. These eggs hatch quickly, and the start working their way among the grass roots, where they will stay feeding voraciously until the following summer, changing then, after a short pupal interval, into the perfect crane-fly.

ALL NATIONS FAIR. Several Starlets, wide awake as usual, have already sent in gifts for the big fair promoted by the Mayoress. Veronica Fisher has donated two articles, and May Kelly has promised to do several tales. But we want many and many more, and Aunt Hilda is quite sure we’ll get them. Any article you think would sell at a bazaar will do, and they can be sent through the circle or direct to the Mayoress. Rally, Starlets, for the ever-deserving cause!

Doris Stanton suggests that we have a stall of our own. but I think most of the stalls are already allotted. If we send in our articles that will do equally well. What we do we will do quietly and well; we want no kudos in helping such a great cause. It is our privilege to help, and that is sufficient reason.