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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 186, 7 August 1937, Page 12

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“TRUE BLUE IN ALL THINGS”

My Dear Children,— It is always with an immense glow of delight that I hear of good deeds and kindness performed, and to-day I am even more so because my attention has been drawn to another act of kindness to the credit of golden-hearted Miss Moncrieff. T story has been sent in to me by one of our Elders, and reads thus: At a recent performance in the Theatre Royal, Christchurch, at which the crippled children were the guests of the management, there arrived among all the others one small laddie who was in an invalid's wheel-chair. When he was about to enter the theatre he found that he could not do so as the fire regulations said a very definite “no” to his plea. It looked grimly like a turn-about for the little chap until news of his plight reached the esA of Miss Moncrieff. This good lady, so widely-known for her golden acts to others less fortunate, arranged for Billy to be brought round to the stage door where Miss Moncrieff met him and had his chair placed in such a position back-stage that he was able to see and enjoy every moment of the performance. .Such thought for others, in innumerable ways, sets a wonderful example that all may follow. One does not need to be great to do good to others for even unto the very humblest they may lessen the burdens of their fellows. How often some thought for another eases one’s cares is seldom known and to do good one must not pause to consider the reward, for to do so is not an act of kindness but self-grandisement. Many of the most humane acts performed in the world have never become known during the life-time of the good Samaritans, and you will remember the rays of sunshine brought into the lives of even Ites of our clan by Paul Boesch and "Lofty” Blomfield. .These two members of our clan, one in Auckland, the other in Dunedin, are cheered each day by the memory of those deeds, and little Billy, of Christchurch, will always remember Miss Moncrieff, too, for her kindness to him. How truly noble is a good deed when shorn of all thought of reward! Now, dears, I must not take up any more space, for our page is just brimming over with hosts of literary and pictorial inteerst. .All my warmest love and kisses, from your ever affectionate,