The Little People's Page

New Zealand Tablet, Volume L, Issue 27, 12 July 1923, Page 39

The Little People's Page

Conducted by Anne

My dear Little People,— & I must write only two or three words this time because I have such piles of letters that I must leave room for them. -Would you believe that a dreadful thing is happening to some of our letters? 'Some of my little friends are not addressing their letters to me, and instead of getting nice fat letters all nicely sealed up in their own envelopes, I am getting some already opened and read by someone else. You know how disappointing that is, just like a second-hand letter. Now. Children, please address all your letters to “Anne,” e/o Tablet. Office, Dunedin. That is all, but that is my address. You will be pleased to see that our list is growing. Look at the names this • week. 1 hope you will all send something, even if it is only sixpence. Do yon. know that T have had nearly- 500 letters? Think how nice it would be if we could raise 500 sixpences even. Anne. TAKAPUNA Oil PI i A NAG F FUND. Previously acknowledged, .-£1 2s Gd; Kathleen Butler, 10s; Eily Butler, 10s; Joyce Nicholson. ss; Prank O'Pcgan, 2s 6d ; Edmund Lynch, 2s 6d ; Zoe Howarth, 2s; Frances Orr, Is 6d ; Jessie Orr, 2s Gd ; Frances Scott, 2. Total, £3 Os. Gd. Dear Anne. — This is my first letter to the Tablet. 1 live in a pretty little town called Fort Chalmers, 1 go to St. Joseph’s Convent School. ! am in standard two. 1 am nine year’s old. We had a card partv to get wood and coal for our school fires. We had some nice music and a lovely supper and then the evening came to a close. We just had our term examinations. Now dear Anne I must bring this letter to a close and hope to write a long one next time. Yeur new friend, Leslie Perm-. Port Chalmers. (Think that was a line idea for getting firing. Are you fond of music?—Anne. Dear Anne. — This is my first letter to you. 1 live in a small Sea Port. .Mv father n- a fisherman, then,* are a great’ mam- fishermen here. We get the Tald-r weekly. I like reading the Little People's Page, I will close now. Your new friend. Nanev Percy, Port Chalmers. (Nancy dear yon must write in ini:, not pencil. Will forgive you this time as it is your first letter. —Anne.) Dear Anne. —I wonder if this is the first letter yon have had from Hawcra. My home is at Otakeho but T stay iu Hawcra and go to the convent school. 1 am eight years old and in standard T. Sister Martini tenches me and she is very nice. My cousin Jack Joyce has just started school and stays with us. We have good fun together. I hope you will have me for a little friend. I am sending you five shillings for the Takapuna Orphanage Fund. I hope yon will have a lot of money for the orphanage. My mother’s name is Anne. Love from Joyce Nicolson, Hawera. (Thank you Joyce for your gift. Yes. I think you are my first Hawcra friend. Give my love to your mother. Anne.) Dear Anne, — I am sending you 2s Gd for the “Little People’s Orphanage Fund,” because I would like to help to build a new home for the orphans. Since I wrote to you last I have been promoted to Std. 11., and I like it fine. There are four in my class, and I am the only Catholic going to our school. I like the Far 7 last: do you Anne? My aunt, Mother Clare,' sends them to me every month. We live quite near Wood side Bush. It is nice there in summer, and a lot of people go there for picnics. We drive to Outram to Mass every fortnight. It is cold here now, snow on the hills, but the flood water is nearly all gone from the plain. Your little friend, Edmund Lynch, Woodside, West Taieri. P.S.- am 7 years and 4 months old. / (Thank you x for your donation Edmund ;* glad you are getting on well at school. Yes, I like the Far East very much.— Dear Anne, —For the. Orphans 2s Gd enclosed. From Frank O’Regan, St. Bathans, Central Otago. My dear Anne, — was so pleased to see my letter in the Tablet, and Kathleen O’Reily one of my mates at school told me, she saw it too. We had two half holidays and one whole day for the show ; it was very wet and cold dear Anne, but such a lot of people went to it. I went with my two sisters, and we had a ride on the merry-go-round? My mummy is sick in the Hospital, and yesterday Daddy took my two sisters and myself to see her. I would like to join the Little People’s Orphanage Fund, and I enclose two shillings toward the fund, dear Anne. Goodbye dear Anne, with best love , from your little friend, - Zoe Howarth, Palmerston North. P.S. My answer to your sum is 119 sheep. , . (Thank you Zoe for your donation. I hope your mother vis better now. Your answer is wrong but* if yon watch you will see that someone guessed it right.—Anne.)

Dear Anne, — was pleased you approved of my plan and 1 hope we collect a lovely surprise packet for the Bishop. / Well Anne this is my donation to it. You will hear from me soon again with a surprise. Your friend, Henry Campbell, Albury. (Thank you Henry for your donation, I put your name on the list last week as I knew you would come up trumps. Am terribly excited about the secret. Anne.) Dear Anne,—l would like to be one of your little friends. I will be ten years on the 29th of June. Don't you think I am a lucky girl to have the Sacred Heart and SS. Peter and Paul for my protectors. I am in Std. 111. I play basket-ball at school. Last Tuesdav-we went to play against Fairlie we won by six points. 1 learn music and J like it very much. I just got a new piece, "Fairy Boating Song. I have three sisters and two cousins who always live with us, as their mothers is dead. The boy is at St. Bede s College, the girl is just six years old. One of my cousins just went to Sydney to be a nun. She will receive her Habit next Sunday. I am sending you 2s 6d for the Orhpans I worked hard for it, and I hope you will receive enough money from your little People to build the orphanage. I must close now dear Anne, with best wishes from your new friend, Jessie Orr, Waitohi (thank you Jessie for your donation, we are getting on nicely but 1 hope a lot more children will go through their money boxes. How did you earn the half-crown?— Anne.) ™ Dear Anne.-It is a lo " time since 1 wrote to you so I think it l \ time 1 wrote again. I have also asked my sister to write to you this time. We have not been bavinvery nice weather here lately. It is very cold to-day "filth love from your little friend, Eilv Butler, Waipawa (Yes, u is ages since you wrote Eilv, thank you for your donation. 1 thought the sun always "shone in Hawke°s Bay, fancy you being cold.—Anne.)' S Dear Anne—l though I would like to join your L'P'P .1 an, eight years old and in standard 2. I goto the Wail Koi-Ko, school about two miles from our place There is no convent here. We have a farm at P mahaka 25 miles from Core My brother and 1 made om firsjf Holy Communion last Sunday We drive seven miles to church at Lapamu once a month. My brother and I are sending a to donation lor the Orphan Fund. I think it is a good Plan to send help for the little orphan boys. My birthday Ime U sSer 40n rw;N , :; ,r ** m ?' \ brotherfaS one sistei i Mill close now dear Anne, and sav a oraver tor me W-little friend Frances C. L. Scot f Pomahaka . (1 Hank you 1 ranees for your donation. Pretty cold driving to church these mornings, isn't itP-Anne ) * Dear Anne,-] his is. my first letter to you. I would he to become a member of your "Little People's Page "as my sister and I take great interest in reading the letters I am twelve years old and J am in standard five I stay school "l W-' if and . and I go to the Convent school «I i have three sisters and two brothers. Dear Anne Please find enclosed one pound towards the -Little People's I age -ten shillings from .mv sister Eilv, and ten killings from myself. lour new friend, Kathleen Butler, Waipawa (Gad to welcome you Kathleen, thank vou for our grit. Do you like living in Waipawa?— ) Dear Anne,— is my "first letter to vou. I live in Oxford and go to the Oxford School. I am 12 years old and 1 am in Std. 4 There is no Catholic school here so J^' C n°,r° to ™ a State Sch ° ol - M -Y brother goes to St Bede s College. Christchurch. He is 14 years old I am very fond of animals. I have a pony called Comedy I cats a M°vfnfw l amed ? iUy ' VW» of 4s aha some cats. My father has a farm and I help him sometimes I harness my goat up in a cart and you may have seen Sf photo of me and my goat-cart in the Christmas number T the bun, at Christmas. We get the Tablet here and I like reading Anne's page. I also find it pleasant to the rrS4 mU V aiSS " at the - back - <™<* always ?ush to get the 1 ablet .when it comes, to read them. As this- is the month of May I have an altar dedicated to ''Our Lady ''in my room I want to become one of -Anne's Little Folk" and would like to see my letters to Anne in print We had a mission here at Easter time. Well dear Anne lam afraid that I will be taking up too much space in the paper I hope to he one of your good little folk and wish vo r page' every success. W new friend, Desmond Cook, Oxford! (No Desmond, I didn't see you and Billy in the Sun -Amm°) 10m US and h ° pe yOU will "rite again! Dear Anne,—l have not written to you before but T now desire to join your little band. Igoto St Patrick's Dominican Convent School, as Z™ will see g from,the heading I am 11 years of age and in Std. 5. We have a verv nice library ; „ our school, as Sister has just brought us some nice books We may take a book every FridayeveiS after p schoolßecently we had a flood, but it was not as had a s that in Dunedin; some of the people took there durintthtn I^^? 00 " W^ ,d - 1 their houses atinng the night. I am living wjth mv auntie as there is no school-where my home is (Miller's Flat) Sid mother and father wish me to be educated at a Catholic School Well dear Anne I will close, being to se , th"s Unshed rack's School 31 "' y ° Ur Httle May Sheeliy,^ ll^ (Are you fond of reading May? I think you must be You were lucky not to be flooded out as poor Dunedin was. Write again. Anne.) v i . vu.ueaiii