Kiwi’s Mailbag

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 45, 16 November 1940, Page 16

Kiwi’s Mailbag

Silver Bell, Johnsonville.—Here’s luck to the flftv yards “try” anyhow, Kath. You should ‘be able to get in some early practice —fo r only today I passed a whole column of swimmers waving togs and towels in the direction of the baths. . Your bathing aspirations were reflected in the sketch. , Snow Top, Seatoun.—Did you spring out of bed and go for a walk, too—like the girl in your story? It was a very brief P'liose Dreams, Eketahunn. —'Thank you for recruiting another member. We enjoyed the little letter. T. T. Atkins sounds a lot for Pam to manage if she wants to summon that gentleman in a hurry! Sally. Waipawn,—Done! Ever since tile bacon-poem problem there has been a nemesis awaiting the poor tiling. (For as well ns white pin-prick eyes, mine lias “Hereiuai” on one side mid “made in England” stamped on its underneath). Turning the gilded legend to the wall is helpful. But now its fate is sealed. Smiler, Carterton.— Things such as these are as strange as the sudden calmness of the English Channel during the Dunkirk evacuation. So you have resorted to an envelope! The usual string-wound letter was missing this time. Dad's Cobber, Carterton.—How are tlio papers and pedals faring? Hell Bird. Norsowood. —M here did you go a’holiitaying? No age on the poem. Merle. Mark it clearly on your next letter. and then I shall lie able to publish the Binkie, Waipawa.—-Olio! We might.have known. Many times have we been thither. Much prefer it to the Elysian Fields anyhow Have no wish to bo nighty-clad, and’no ear for the type of music they favour elsewhere —so her impolite instructions were ineffective! I'uriri, New Plymouth. Hurrah. You made a neat job of those stamps. A boartv thank-vou to you. Beth is certainly doing her bit. Fitting the quilt together must be interesting—and it is sure to look very gay when both of you have added the final stitches. Binkie, Waipawn.—Bird s eye or cats eye—it looked “nifty.” But. for all that, I do not approve of Flossies influence either Butterflies sound ambitious; why not start from bumbles ond work up?