BAD WRITING

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 1, 2 January 1936, Page 15

BAD WRITING

MISSIONS TO SEAMEN

THE FESTIVE SEASON

Very gay times have been enjoyed by the visitors to the Missions to Seamen, Stout Street. The hall, had been charmingly decorated by many good workers, and there was an atmosphere of gaiety, helped by the bright yellow, scarlet, and green paper chains, with a canopy of the same tones above. Special dances have been held for the men on a number of the overseas ships, and the. best entertainment has been given and enjoyed by all. Supper arrangements have been in the hands of the "Harbour Lights" Guild, and also the "Lightkeepers," all doing very excellent work.

Christmas cakes and carols have been features of the time, and tea parties have been held also. A cake which received much admiration was an oblong one, on which was a ship, complete with anchors and lifebuoys. A whist drive was another attraction, Mr. Allison being the M.C. for the occasion, and a dance was held downstairs on the same evening.

. The men in hospital, were not forgotten, a special visit being made to them, with gifts and friendly greetings. Another day a bus was chartered to take the visitors to the Khandallah Domain, and the excursion was a great success. The guests were in energetic form, and clirqbed to the hill-tops to see the lovely view from that part of Wellington. A picnic afternoon tea was served, which was a very popular item after the climb. Then "all returned to the Mission Hall where there ,was a great scene of gaiety with dancing, ping-pong, and billiards, and supper to "top up" everything.

POSTMAN'S SYMPATHISER

"Everybody loves the postman, even if he is the carrier of rendered accounts and other disturbers of our peace," writes a correspondent in the "Manchester Guardian." "He must be the most popular of all officials. And everybody must have sympathised with him at times ire the difficulties of his Calling, which include badly-ad-dressed and wrapped parcels.

"But apart from the postman's troubles for which those who use the post are responsible, we must take to ourselves much blame for the manner in which some of use who have not risen high enough in the world to use embossed notepaper insist upon scribbling both address and signature, so that people we write to for the first .time have the greatest difficulty in deciphering either, if, indeed, they sue-