CHEERS FOR LONG-LOST “NIGEL ARDEN”

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 114, 16 May 1931, Page 5 (Supplement)

CHEERS FOR LONG-LOST “NIGEL ARDEN”

I Dear Wendy.- Please will you I give mu fur keeping you Waiting I long fur a letter? 1 am sorry to sav it is nearly two years since I last wrote to you. but I will try and write to you more often now. .Many thanks for the birthday greetings you gave me. We were living for eight months al. Pohonui, with “ Wedding Bells” on one side of u> and “Lemon Wool and her sister (I forget her pen-name > on the other, and I can tell you we had a jolly lime together. I road on the Wendy Page twn or three, weeks ago that all the I'tiku Ites are getting pretty slow at writing. If I a> i an> thing to judge by they are. We arc very, very sorry to hear that poor “Old Gran” cannot write to our Hut, probably any more. Never mind, ue are living in hopes that she might some day. Wasn’t the Hawke’s Bay earthquake a terrible disaster? It is to be hoped that we never witness another ns long as we live. My brother and 1 give money to the earthquake relief fund every week. We were very fortunate we had no relative” over there. Our landlord had a sister and his wife had three sisters there, but they all escaped unhuir. However, his cousin had a leg amputated. We had some refuge ■ children coming io our school for quite awhile, but they have now gone home. 1 hope you enjoy yourself by a big maire fire the same as I do. these cold evenings. My eldest brother met I with an accident four months ago, ‘ when a horse rolled on hin. and broke | his foot. The doctors sent him to the I Wanganui Hospital for treatment. He bad to have it, X-rayed to find the trouble at first, and now he has been X-rayed again, and they find his shinbone is cracked open an eighth of an inch. The doctors are going to opeiate and re-set it. I huvt learned to be a good cook, Wendy. I can make very nice sponges and cakes (large and small). We had a very cold snap on Friday and Saturday, but. Bunday was a lovely day. 1 think this is all the news just now, so good-bye, hoping you are in the best of health, with lots of love and kisses —From “NIGEL ARDEN.” Utiku. P.S.—ls this answer right to “Laughing Lilac’s” puzzle. YYUR, YYUB, lUUR. YV4me. I am so pleased, dear, you are going to write more regularly now. I '’have missed you so much. Vhat a jolly time you must have bad with your W’endyitv neighbours. I. too. live in hopes as you do, dear. Perhaps after all the doctor’s verdict will prove wrong, aud one day our “Old Gran” will once more write her cheery letters to us. It was splendid of you to assist so generously the lot of the refugee people. You express my own wish, too, dear. I never hope to see another disaster such as the East Coast suffered. I hope your brother, soon recovers. That is splendid. To be a good cook, should, in my opinion, be every girl’s ambition. The correct solution of “Laughing Lilac’s” problem will be found in her letter.Wendy.