A PAGE for LITTLE PEOPLE

New Zealand Tablet, Volume L, Issue 43, 1 November 1923, Page 39

A PAGE for LITTLE PEOPLE

•: Dear Little People, '? . - The birthday list for the new month is now due and a l6 •ri? Vlng are , November Little People: ' Mary Daly, Annie Thornton, Kathleen Thornton, Mary Thornton, Kitty ; brnyth C. Atkinson, Lennie Knowlcr, Julia Cavanftgh, > Celig Thorpy, Kathleen Archer, Lexie O’Conpell/ Agnes 'v^; kl ’ Pya Thornton, Margaret Cameron, ...Patrick >; , : ihornton, Eileen Beaumont, Agnes O’Brien. Besides all these, there-is the birthday of our Little People’s Page, Inch is exactly one year old in the .-first week of Novemor 1 es, Little Folk, we have been thinking of each other " ‘ aiul Y- tlng l to each- other for a whole year, and in that , time Anne has received 750 letters from her little friends. irZurn i V? beC ° me quite..impossible to put every letter few “- the l ablet , so, starting from to-day, we are going to try 7 fljpew way. I would like you to follow my story with your -- atlases so that you will , see just where we all live, 'and ' Sd »' ? le i Li^ ,e POP,e ’ S Trip Round New Zeat J.. .I ! sfci,rt oft 1,1 the same order as the letters Tt i? alphabet, and we’ll begin at:—The Bluff. Kitty-' fe fr ° m Ym,rS is a good descriptive:.. L vou % a/ld A 7 e WOuld like / to see ; all the pretty places J?VI 1 i7 ko> ' as you “go to the Manual Training? .CfP ege °n to leani bnke’l we may drop in to- .. some time. From the same place writes? Madge MasDon^L 18 r JUSt baCk / t 80,1001 after a fortnights holidfe Dpn t be disappointed Madge at not seeing your. letter W’ pnnt, but join us in our trip. Run up the bland now who har dUn ( T a Tleefton) and call on Tessie M^Vlahon who m a puzzle for us. TeSsi ° Says “Mary, is o d, Mary is twice as old as-Anne was when Mary was as 4 * knA & A A n , ne is n°i. H°^° is Anne?” Does anyone know. Also from the same place writes Leonard McMahon and he wants to know all about “The hen and a half that laid an egg and a half and a half. How many eggs would she lay in a week and a half.-? Tell him somebody, Poyonport is next. “Sheila TValsh writes from • I think V^o! hel • d ° .' lke Cats, -- s P e ® % Pecans, and -think .;aQ^or g e is a beautiful name for your cat In - Dunedm/pre: many friends. Lorna McEntee writes to tell “ e that the letter “H” is the answer to the long verse «e had a wce| or two ago. Right Lorna,- and the tew other i - children who -guessed the same answer. f Mahala M-B-rAr.-i is Sna to al Wl /? lhro ? sis,, ' rs one brother who .: tb.fr V 5° -a lawyer. -:Mahala likes walking through“i.»ne” r< th" 8 *° 7 h “‘- , Stran ge that she has never noticed /,- T»a . ore ‘ Lettie McClmtock guessed the- riddle too ■ Dfjrim know children * hat in. Tessie’s family Z e „> they must d ,T ° n m 0 Mme datef What a fin party ! melt E™ CaJlv %Z " e aT e ™ *° Edendale - and wo ' - j Se y. Va and her sister go in to Gore bv little trie r |d ot°e th 6 C ° nVent ' and Eva "»»ts to ba our Connie Dodunski course we are pleased to welcome her. rpi ■ ’. an o d f ne nd, wntes'from NewThis is Connie’s third letter and . that you did well when r G > ’ La " rence - I hop© - y were. UUve Williamson writes too and t<l,ls Us about httle dog “Snot” whiVb « ■ %; . and talls «s about goes out on the hills by herself r^ti^^„ d latefe’aW '

■ ....... .- V' ■?.'■■•:■.. ' •■•■"■■ jia ' - ' five or six rabbits, and if her master is with her she gets him : to carry, the rabbits home.”' Anne' thinks Spot Ms wk. a J°t-of s|rme. . From . Greyraouth writes-Mona Hannah; ? , rtr a ft S^- a riddle » and . I must ask my Little Peopled W*V “ If the King of ’ England gave the King*sf - ?. r gold watch and chain and the. King of Greece gavtTthe Kwjr of England a gold watch and chain wlMt V it represent ?” Now we must get a^ayfp i to Hastings, and I’m sure-it will take us some dayglo meet- all our new friends there. Eileen Barrett tells ge she has a brother and a sister, a yellow, canary and c ’a little kitten. Such a nicely-written letter too Eileen, we are pleased to meet you., Gabriel Hannah me $e likes the poetry and stories :in the Tablet but has not read our letters yet. You just read them Gabriel, and yoii*U see how good they are, Anthony AVinstone is preparing fW, Cornmnnionl : als6; : in the spelling lesson he got 4 coireetv Patrick W& tells,me about', the “Mite Boxes*’ | T th « : %mese Missionaries. . ■ Also he wants'to know -- .Where Ari p? lives. In a house .of course, Pat, where •; e K could 1 live?. All these Hastings friends are new ones :, ;1 and .we are sorry we cannot stay longer/ with them, but •we must hurry as it ■ gets dark early. W-i Hallaghan." tell? me lam sending you this letter pi mine to see if it mg oo * en^ to So in the Tablets Yes indeed: it is, but dehn we haye so little room. - "Margaret Downing ' tells oldest. . Lucky girl Margaret. Lots of people have no 4{n sMH brothers Joan Rees tells me she has a sister' , ; in Std. 3, one in Std. 6. and a brother who goes in to . dsapier 6 r e day to college.. Jack Bissell says “this is *T my first * teUe, » V ! suppose yon think ft is a boutt«| I wrote to you. Yes indeed Jack I do, and I hope you’ll enjoy our Trip Round New Zealand as much as I do. lan ” l[° T ™ SO t .f ll l 9 , m l e about the for-: pennies, that Jumbo 8 C \ h a s two Mfen called Jumbo. Good boy for remembering grave an, try to grow up as he ybUvio. Wil.™S tells me that “the-two Mite Boxes - are;olte for the . Jiris and one for the bo ‘ V8 ’ and the ; boys’ one is getting s very . heavy. I just wonder; Gwen, if those boys are going to win the race. Martin NM.lives in Willow Park Road 8 . . h ® f G + d ’ , ab °! lt half a m,le from school. We could* i4SSS M 8 h r don fW u - think, he has- directed’^ < 01 • Dal as ? arr tellß me abontt Confirmation which ook-place a few Sundays ago. Dallas’s father is dead arid ' bL-r A lth h,S Grandma - Douglas Johnston lives with •li e Plnir ’ an n aVeloCk ReadV His father died^f • s ter LTu bu D ° Ug l aS has his mother and a little ‘ th-e M t ar d * Mane Buk BayS: " My Grannie getl ho Table* and I enjoy reading the Little People’s pS» PeW two sisters,- one brother, and a.canary.; ca® the W w Ve f°"° Mane > doe 3 yours whistle? Ajd e last JeUer irom is; Austin Donovan’s. Swry “ !? , y«u are a-spcw-t-;ta^y-that l “the only pet I* hare tmmm nam<? is Clare and she is one year old!’! ■ TfiuHfitfishes pur trip for this week. Children.—Anns? : >| ■i "ho ;J J?*^w a ’? a g 6 P und Already acknowledged, £l2 14s“'t0 «*•.” Oh 6d) Glad to acknowledge yo*rX^ A mm m ;