SOMETHING TO INTEREST YOU.

Waikato Times, Volume 116, Issue 19462, 29 December 1934, Page 13 (Supplement)

SOMETHING TO INTEREST YOU.

Here are two little articles from an English children’s newspaper Peter thought you might like. GOOD LUCK FOR TOMMY Tommy Charles of Paddington will never forget his holiday at Deal. He will think himself a lucky hoy for more reasons than one. Tommy Is eight and went for a flight in an aeroplane over Ramsgate Harbour. He took his toy yacht.up with him, and, alas! dropped-it into the sea. Seven days later Tommy went fishing in Sandwich Bay with his father, and saw something floating toward their anchored boat. It was his lost yacht. History does not relate what .the yacht’s original name was; but Tommy felt that a change of name was indicated. It is now called the Viking.

11 POOR BIRDS We hear of one more sad tragedy on the roads, which will not come into the records of our Transport Ministry. A motorist was driving down a lane near Eastleigh in Hampshire when a most astonishing thing happened, a large flock of sparrows suddenly flying from the hedge. There must have been several scores of birds, and a number of them Ivere caught by the windscreen of the car. The impact of the birds against the gjßss sounded as If missiles were being thrown at the screen, and when the driver stopped, and walked back a little distance, he found that eleven dead birds were lying in the road. !