PEN-FRIENDS' LEAGUE

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22509, 17 September 1938, Page 5 (Supplement)

PEN-FRIENDS' LEAGUE

This page has been compiled by 'Mate Clifton, Papanui, who for many years has corresponded with girls and boys in India. 'Mate Clifton also gives a list of addresses to whom members in -New-Zealand may write :

Extract from a letter from penft iend Arnold Gohsalves, Lahore, India:—

"India is a very rich and beautl fui place to see. There are manj

places in India which X have not the good fortune to see, but I know for a fact that people from all over the world come to Delhi, the capital of India, and also the great 'Taj

Mahal,' in Agra. This great building was built, in the Mogul reign, and is rated as one of the wonders of the world. If is a magnificent building and under it lies the body of the Mogul queen, 'Mumtaj Mahal.'

"Bombay, Karachi, and Calcutta are the great seaports, and their harbours are very big and beautifully designed. Karachi, the great airport, would now have been

called the Croydon of the East had the RlOl not crashed, but Karachi is now being f built up on new scales; in another year it will be as big and beautiful- as Croydon, in .London.' ■ -.:'-'■:■ »-'r ,1 1.5 '',■.■ .^"•-".-"' , 1 "The hill 'stations, "Mussoorie' and Simla, not'- forgetting," Kashmir, "also are very healthy places, the scenery

Huxsaln Jlitry. 29A Leyn Badn street, Flart. Salle, Ceylon.

S. Irihad Almad-£asll, 49 Momanc road, Lahore, India.

G. S. Chawara, Chawara House, Udalpnr, India.

Mr Prlya Krishen, Prem Kriahen, Esq, I.C.S„ Joint Magistrate, BarelUy, UP., India.

in these places being extremely gorgeous. Chaklala, situated-in the north of India CPunjab), is fly" miles from Rawal Pindi, and istm biggest military station in India, There are no civilian houses' ,1a Chaklala, and the -workshops artl situated-in the centre, The wbflrtl shops turn out 60 cars a year."- *}

PLEASE WRITE TO^-

Mr Salfuddln, /-*•*■ No. IS, AnarkaU, C \ Lahore, \ Punjab, x India.

RIDDLES What Alts,* has six feetp Three duclgWhat anitM are "ships «* * desert"? Camels. •