A Page for Little People

New Zealand Tablet, Volume LII, Issue 9, 11 March 1925, Page 37

A Page for Little People

Concluded by ANNE

My dear Little People, Our Badges have arrived and by the time you read this letter of mine, at least 44 of the Members oi theL.P.L.C. will be wearing their badges, because they will have been posted to them. I hope you will all be pleased with them, and wear Lem always so that you will know each other when y. n meet. But, what about our Members who -haven t saved up for their badges yet? Well, never mind, we’ll all have badges soon, and I want you all to promise me that you will always speak to one another when you are wearing your badges, and meet •each other. Particularly if you happen to he strangers to one another. It would make me very happy to know that all the members of the L.P.L.C. welcome a wearer of our badge, at all times and everywhere. Try and remember like sensible Little People, ■and let the L.P.L.O. Badge, in our Lady’s colors Blue and AA T hite— enough to make you wish to speak to one another. That reminds me. Some of the .Members sent their money in CASH, and I got it quite safely, but it was what the Grownups call “a risk.” And anyhow, it is forbidden by the Post Office rules. 1 know you hadn’t stamps in the house at the time, or some other good reason, but next rime it will be better to wait till someone gels i stamps. It is best not to break rules isn’t •..it? ’ ’ You will notice quite a number of letters from new members, and they ask for someone to write to them. Please write, Little People, and do your very best to answer any questions that are asked. Now we’ll get ■on with the letters, there is such a huge

mail this week. ' *" Anne. Thank you Margaret and Ivy Cuttance for badge money. You will like the badges, I'm sure, when you get them.— " ' Dear Anne, This is my first letter to you. I hope you are quite well. I am 10 years old and in Std. 4 this year. My birthday is on the 24th of September. I have one sister and no brothers. We motored up to Christchurch for our holidays, then we went up to Warikihi and Waikaia. Then went to Lake Te Anaii and Manapouri and Monowai. I think this is all the news. Your loving friend, Leta Robertson, Invercargill. & (Welcome Leta, wouldn't you like to join our L.P.L.O. Save up till you get six pence to buy a badge with. You are having lovely holidays indeed.— f k Dear Anne, M. I have been reading your Little People's . letters in the Tablet, and I enjoy reading / - about their pets. I have no pets, but I am fond of them. I will be in Std. five when school starts. I will be twelve on the twentieth of June. I went to Waikaka for a month of my holidays, but I am back home again. I learn music and I am in- - terested in it, have you any Little People interested in music. Do you like reading

Anne? I do. AVell Anne, I have told you all the news. Your new friend, Ann Francis, Nightcaps. (AA r elcome dear Ann, we’re glad to hear from you. Never mind if you have no pets, yon 11 have all the more time to read our page and write to us. Yes, I’m very fond of reading.—Anne.) Dear Anne, As it is a long time since I have written to you I thought I would write you a few lines. I have been away in Geraldine for a month s holiday, and had a lovely time. I made a lot of new friends and also learned to swim. Geraldine is a very pretty place, surrounded by a lot of bush and shrubs. When I returned from my holiday I was very disappointed to find all the Sisters from the Morven Convent had got a shift. There are three new Sisters in their place but I have not met them yet. Sister Brigid presented six of us for proficiency, and we all passed with honors. Morven Convent was the only school in Canterbury for the last two years that obtained one hundred per cent. I have a little black and white kitten, would you please give me a name for it. My birthday is on the fifth of August. Well dear Anne, as this is all the news for the present I will close. Your old friend, AA’innie McGrath, Morven, (Glad to hear from you again Winnie. AA hat a nice trip you had to Geraldine. AA T ould you like to join the L.P.L.C. ? You have a birthday mate, “Hilda Sloane, Onehunga.” I think “Spot” would be a nice name for puss.—Anne.) Dear Anne, T ll r. 4- n L 1 11 I I 11 -w

Just a short letter to tell you I am enjoying my holiday on the beach. There are quite a lot of people spending their holidays here. They help to cheer up this little township. There are six children in our —Jim, Molly, Billy, Eileen, Kevin, and myself. We keep mum very busy sewing for us. I think mum shall be glad when our holidays are over for she says we are a nuisance in the house. I shall close now as I am off to bed. Good-night and God bless you. Your little friend, Patricia Murphy, Fortrose, Southland. (AA ouldn t I just like to pay you a surprise visit away down at Fortrose? May be you are a bit of a nuisance to poor mum, but there isn’t one of you she’d give away now, and you’ll soon be trying to make your own clothes too perhaps. Love to all. — Anne.) Dear Anne, I hope this letter will find you quite well and happy. The holidays are nearly over and I have enjoyed myself very much, only for this sickness which is going about, and stops us from going to the pictures and other places of amusement. Last Sunday a black kitten wandered into the house and made its self at home, and I want you to give me a name for it. Good-bye Anne, for the present. I have got no more news for you at the present. I remain, yours truly, Noreen, Wellington.

(They say black cats bring luck Noreen dear, so call your kitten “Lucky. Yes, there are a great many children sick these days, pray for them dear and for their worried parents.—Anne.) Dear Anne, •lust a short note to tell you I have put all but two of the circus together. I am also sending some answers to riddles. It is raining to-day and it is nice and cool alter all the hot days we have been having. Anne ivould you tell me where we have to send the scrap books. I will start writing the answers for the riddles and the escaped circus. I will close now. From your little friend, Irene Hanrahan, St. Bathans. (You did well with the Circus Irene dear, only missing “Platypus” and “Cages” which was spelt wrong. I’m sending you a little picture. You’ll see your riddles in the bin. —Anne.) Dear Anne, Just a line to wish you a happy New Year. We have three ponies and a ponyfoal. We call them Toby, Dollie, Trixie, and the pony-foals name is Bunty. I am in Std. 111, and I am 10 years old. My birthday is on the 12th of July. W T e have 15 ducks and 5 bantams, 8 geese, 1 puppy (we call it Roy). My brother Willie has a pigeon. I have five brothers and three sisters. I think it is a good idea about the badges. W ell I have no more news. From your little friend, Tessie O’Neill, Elderslie, Enfield P. 0., via Oamaru. P.S. —I know some of the riddles; here is one of my "own; —Long legs, ooked thighs, little head, and no eyes? Riddle, me, riddle, me, what is that over the head and under the hat? Tessie dear, you’ve got two mates on your birthday. One is Ida Archer, Little River, and the . other is Teresa O’Neill, Pukiuri. Tell me now is that yourself with, a different address. Anne. Dear Anne, This is my first letter to you. I am in Std. 4 and. am 10 years old. W T e are having very long holidays through the infantile paralysis. I am hoping we will soon be able to get back to school. Dear Anne my sister Colleen and I want to be members of your L.P.L.C. I am enclosing stamps for two badges. We have finished harvest. lam sorry because it was good fun driving out with the dinner and lunches. I will write you a longer letter next time and tell you about my pet rabbits. I will now close. Wh’th best love from your new friend, Erin McNeill, Lauriston. (Welcome Erin and Colleen, hope you’ll like your badges when you get them in a day or two. I’m sure you had a lovely time during the harvesting,’ Wish I could have been with you.—Anne.) Dear Anne, j , I am writing to tell you that I think the Scrap Book Competition a very good idea. Please } put my name on the list of competitors for it. I have started' my book but have not done much of it yet. When do our books have to be finished, Anne ? I

think every L.P.L.C. member will be pleased A to wear a badge. Please find enclosed money ' r for one. I should like somebody about 13 , or 14 to write to me. .Would you kindly ask if some one will" do so. ' Well,, dear Anne, as there is nothing more to toll I will close. Amur loving friend, Ursula Brother ie, Akaroa. P.S. — would like to see my letter in the Tablet. Joy has just told me that she wants a badge so please send two. (Thank you for stamps Ursula, hope you and Joy will like your badges. Did you get m your Scrap Book finished? Someone is sure to write to yon when your letter is on our page. —Anne.) Dear Anne, May I join your letter page? 1 will be nine years of age on the sixth of June and I am in Std. I. I have two pet lamb* and a dog called Dick. My sister and I drive the lunches out to the harvesters every day. We are having a long holiday from school on account of infantile paralysis. We have a pony and a little gig in which we drive to school. lam sending sixpence in stamps for a badge as I think it would be nice to have one. From your little friend, Alary Callaghan, Palmerston South. (Glad to have yon with us Alary, hone you’ll like your badge. Did you get the harvesting all done safely, and do you drive the pony your own selves ?—Anne.) • Dear Anne, I am not one of the members of the L.P.L.C. i k but we have been getting the Tablet for two ■'■ years or more. What I want to do is to ask you if I could join it and also I am sending 6d for a badge. I am living on a farm, and we have cows, nigs, and many other animals. I will close now, hoping to receive my badge soon. —Norah Kenealy, No. 3 Road, Te Puke, Bay of Plenty. (Nora dear, you’re just the very sort of girl we want, because you Want ns. Hope you’ll like your badge ami will find a letter mate soon. —Anne.) Dear Anne, I have been anxiously waiting to see my first letter in the Tablet , hut it did not appear. lam eleven years of age, and I will be in Std. five when school starts. My birthday is on the twentieth of June. I am sending six stamps for a badge. I went to Waikaka for part of my holidays. I went for a dip yesterday and had a splendid time. I learn music and I like it very much. I would like to write to some Little People, about eleven or twelve years of age. Please print my letter Anne. Amur new friend, Ann© Francis. : (You will ave seen your letter by this time, my dear little namesake. Thank you for the sixpence, hope you’ll like your badge. ) Someone is sure to write to you, but you ■ have no birthday mate yet.- —-Anne.) k Dear Anne, This is my first letter to you. I am nine years old and in Standard 2 at school. I live on a farm and just now we are harvesting. I milk one cow every night. I have 2 pet lambs. My sister is going to write to you. I am enclosing sixpence in stamps'. and I want yon to please send mo a badge. From

your new friend, Cecilia Callaghan, Palmerston. North. , (Welcome Cecilia, you’ll be pleased with ■your badge I m sure. Write again soon and you 11 get a letter mate one of these days. When is your birthday?—Anne.) Dear Anne, .1 Iris is the first time I have written to you. 1 am staying at my uncle’s and I have a good time. My uncle lias ten children, seven boys and three girls. Every night I go and !do tutm to milk the cows, they are milking ri ’ im letter is not very long, but all the ■same f do not think, it will be the last. I would like to join the L.P.P and I would u u ' to have 11 badge so I am sending you he money. From your loving new friend, Mary Bowman, Kaimata. (Welcome Alary, I hope you’ll get some new members for us when you start wearing your badge. I just bet you had a fine hole itay. Wish , I had been among von all. But I can t milk.— Dear Anne, I was very pleased when I saw my letter n. last week’s Tablet. Do the badges only <ost sixpence Anne? T will send yon sixpence anyway and if it is more will you please V me W m; '<* they are. Anne will von ease gave mo names for four kittens-two fluffy blue ones and two grey ones. We-have lots of lovely red apples ripe now. Well dear , have not much news to-night - I ti," r°n W hoping to see my letter in .1. Tablet Love from Dyinpim Am,os o Bnen, To Wao Wao, " (n.vrapm, darling, is it only f„„ r kittens no want names: for. What about those4wd aim ‘-Dainty” nlKl “li-hiffv” end ~P ' ■' 10 they Persian pussies? How pim, v they must be. Yes, sixpence is quite ™ongh tor the badge, you’ll et yom-s i„ , it,, days, -bone you’ll like it.—Anne.) Dear Amie, - This is my second letter to von. My birthctay ns on December 24. I am eleven and T Mould like some girl my age to write io me. . iavo a _ bomb and his name is Bimty we have n kitten too will you give us a name oi i Anne? I have three brothers and cm sisters. My little sister says she s •going to write to yon. We have twelve cows to milk. I am sending the stamps for a badge. Well good-bye Anne. Your little mend, Irene McAmdty, Convent School. Rakaia. ’ (Thank you for the stamps Irene, I’m sure some of the girls will write to you. Perhaps one of your birthday mates will. They are— Josie Blanchfiekl and Katie Mullany. * Call your cat “Tibby.”-Anne. P.S.—Will someone please write to Irene?— Dear Anne, Please find sixpence enclosed in stamps for a badge. Isn’t it hot? I thought I was going to die with the heat these last three days. Didn’t you Anne? My word I would not like to be living up north where that terrible disease infantile paralysis is. Has there been any cases in Dunedin yet Anne? I hope it does. not come down south. My sister was around at our place for a holiday. She came on February 3 and went away on February 4. During her holiday the mill

was all our place. It pulled in on Saturday , at dinner time. It rained on Sunday, so it . was not able to work until after dinner on Monday. Just as they were going to start the packing of the engine busted. They started to work again about 3 o’clock and ’ worked for about an hour, when suddenly it went again. They hadn’t steam up next time when it went. On Tuesday at lunch •time (morning) it went again, but that one was the last, as Mr. Gerard went to Winton to get new packing. They finished at halfpast four. My youngest brother (Willie) . made his first Holy Communion last month/ and Father Hunt gave him a beautiful prayer book called, the A‘Pocket Manual.” . Well, dear Anne, I must close now. From your old friend, Mary Donaghy, Dipton. (Thanks for the stamps Mary dear, hope you’ll like your badge. My, but you had a real thrilling time with your Mill. What about Willie writing to “Anne” too. Anne.) Hear Anne, This is my first letter to you. I am sending sixpence for a badge. lam eight years old and go to St. Mary’s School, Christchurch. I have one brother, Jack. My birthday is on the 9th November; best love from Mary Gorman, Bishop Street, Christchurch. (Welcome little eight-year-old Mary, and thank you for your nice letter, also the sixpence. I hope you’ll like your badge and will find a letter mate, but you have no birthday mate yet, dear. Perhaps one will grow. Anne.) Dear Anne, It is a long time since I wrote to you, but as I am thinking of having a badge I thought I should write now. 'We get the Tablet regular every week, and I always read the “Little People’s Page.” I often go for a swim in the river. We have two cows, two pigs, and two pet Jambs. I would like someone to write to me. I would like my name to be put in the L.P.L.C. list. J I received four prizes at the break-up. My birthday is on 18th August. I have two sisters and two brotherstheir names and ages are; Frank, 16; Mary, 10; Eileen, 9; Leo, 4. The weather we are having up here at present is not Very nice. I enclose six penny stamps for a badge. Well, dear Anne, that is all the news at present, so I will close with best wishes from your friend, Veronica Ryan, Wangaehu, via Wanganui. (Thank you for the sixpence Veronica, I hope you’ll like the badge. Someone is sure to write to you, but tell me your birthday, perhaps you have a mate. Anne.) I’ll put in the list of new members next week —no room this time. Good-night. —Anne. P.S.—I may not be able to announce the ‘ results of the Scrap Book Competition on the 18th March. If not, it will be on our page on the 25th March FOR SURE.