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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20207, 29 May 1937, Page 19 (Supplement)

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FROM A NEW MEMBER. Dear Teter Pan,—l would like to Join your Circle. 1 always read your page with interest, and have for some time wished to'TTTn, but have put it off until now. May 1 have Glamis lor a pen-naine if it is not already taken? Has not the weather been very unsettled all this month? 1 was beginning to wonder whether we would ever have a nice sunny day, but it is a beautiful day today. T,?ie mornings are getting quite chilly now. We have had a good show or chrysanthemums this year, but the rain has battered them about. I picked a bunch or violets yesterday. The first I have seen this season. The llag lilies (irises) are coming out in flower. I am going to tell you about the trip I had to Auckland some time ago. it was very interesting. We were ready to start for Auckland at half-past eight on the Monday morning.. It was very cold travelling In the car. We arrived In the city at 11 o’clock. I went with my uncle and Auntie and two cousins. Auntie took us by tram to King’s Wharr where we went on a ferry to Devonport, which we enjoyed, but coming back we were seasick because we looked at the water all the way over. In the arternoon Uncle took us in the car to the zoo. We were there most of the afternoon. We stayed at Auckland Hotel Tor the night. My two cousins and I had great fun going up and down in the lifts, also getting lost on the stairways. We went to bed that night very tired but looking rorward to the next day. When we saw the trooping of the Colours and later went to the War Museum, all of which we enjoyed. We arrived home the same after--1 am sending in a Beauty Seeker. I have made five Peggy Squares so far, but have to wait till 1 go to Hamilton to get some more wool. Well, Peter Pan, 1 must stop as tea is ready. Kind regards from Ethel Rumney, Taupirl. Peter sends you the biggest welcome he Ci.il find, Ethel, and he hopes to have lots more interesting letters Horn you. Do write and tell Peter your age and birthday, us you forgot to put them in this letter. What a splendid time you had in Auckland; it is such an interesting place, isn’t it?. Yes, you may have Glamis lor your pen-name.—Peter Pan. HOLLYWOOD. Dear Peter Pan, —Hasn’t it been a lovely day to-day, Peter? There was a wonderful sunset last night—all pink and blue, but It changed very quickly. The Captain had Just arrived in Hollywood, so we will continue his adventures: “ My sister is a Director of Research at the Universal Studios, where she is head of her department. This trip I have seen more of California than ever before, travelling many miles and using approximately 350 gallons of petrol. " Really, there is a lot to tell—the Would-drive, where one can see from a certain vantage what cannot be seen anywhere on earth. About 75 miles in the San Bernardino Mountains; rrom Los Angeles up 7800 Teet on the road to Big Bear and Arrowheads Lakes. You note on the right the Mojave (pronounced Mo-hav-1) Desert, 100 miles at a stretch; below on the plains, the orange groves, and vineyards. Los Angeles in the distance, 75 miles away—San Bardo Abbes at our feet on the plains—Long Beach 26 miles beyond Los Angeles; Santa Catalina Island, 28 miles from Long Bunch, and away beyond that, is the path of the sun, a ribbon or gold on the ocean for as far as you can see. Moutains stretching ahead and right.— the mountains of Mexico Oleh-ht-co). Topanga canyon, a few miles west of Santa Monica opens up from the beach of the bay; seven miles to San Fernando Valley is a wonderful drive, and as you reach the crest opening up the valley with all the little vihages—San Gabriel Mountains as a background, with the snow-clad Sierras lots ol miles beyond that—you have a view- that is oh: so lovely one can’t imagine anything like. Along the rim or the Santa Monica Mountains north and west of Hollywood, there is the finest picture view in ail the worid. It is called the MuJholland Drive. As one climbs the dr‘v<* from Hollywood one winds and twines and climb on a perfect road on high all the time. ‘Starting from Cajuenga Pass, quarter or a mile from Hollywood Bowl, a large ampitheatre set Hi the hills, where -2,000 people can be seated. Reaching the crest of the mountains, the drive is about , 15 miles along the ridge, and as you twine in and around the peaks—there are hundreds at your reet, so to speak, and depending on which side or tin: peak you are, whether you look out over Hollywood rar out beyond l.os Angeles to tin: ocean stretching west and south, and the mountains away to Mexico, with the intervening plains oil wells like forests here and there. On the north side is the San Fernando Valley, with its background of two ranges or mountains—San Gabriel and Sierras that are snow-clad (I shall cross them to-morrow, going through Cajon Pass from San Bernandino to Victorville, then the desert). At several points all you do is to turn about and the view is changed. A magnificent picture, no matter where you look, but most str.king is the view looking down on Hollywood and Los Angeles, especially at night,' when millions ol light in streets and buildings, and the large coloured signs that are everywhere are all lit up. should you be in Auckland, climb .Mount Eden at night and imagine it 50 times gieater, although tin* view from Eden Is certainly fine and similar—Usman and llawaikl.” And that concludes this week’s letter which makes up half of the whole letter or J i pages. Cheerio. Peter.—Ranee p Ji! e . s . u , n ® st 'y as lov ’ely. wasn’t it. Ranee? hn! C i» tf nkS V iey aro such Putty things, but it is such a pity that they fade so soon, lsn t it? The Captain writes verv long letters, doesn't lie? Hollywood uni California must be lovely places to visit too.—Peter Pan.