Essay Competition
JUNIORS. SEWINC AND KNITTING. Dear Chief Kiwi,—l am going to write about sewing. Sewing is a very pleasant pob to me. We learn sewing every Monday afternoon at school. Our sewing inspector’s name is Miss Burns. She shows us many lovely things children aged six, seven, eight, nine and ten have sewn. I knitted a dolly’s orange dress, a doll’s bonnet, a pair of booties, which looked very sweet, and a doll’s hat. which our dog chewed up. I made a nightdress case, a table centre, and now I am making a pinafore. One of our Kiwis named Joyce Mackay put some mushrooms with a little elf holding a raupo in his hand on her nightdress case. I must close now with mucn love to the other Kiwis. —Prize of 2/6 to Marjory Fraser, age 7 years, 709 Rodney street, Hastings. P.S.: Thank you for the two certificates. ft ft * ft THE seasons of the year. Dear Chief Kiwi,—l must thank you for the certificate vou awarded me last time. This week lam writing about the seasons of the vear. The four seasons are Spring. Summer, Autumn and Winter. 1 like Spring and Summer best. In Spring there are many kinds of trees and flowers. Daffodils, jonquils, snowdrops, and pansies are all Suring flowers. We go to the beach in the Summer, and we also go for picnics in tile bush. It certainly is a very beautiful season. Then as soon as Summer is over all the leaves turn brown, .yellow, and red. Everybody knows it is Autumn. We go out on the hills to look for mushrooms, and sometimes return with baskets full of them. Most of the fruit is ripe in Autumn. Then there comes the cold, cold weather. Many boys and girls put on their thickest clothes, and so out making snow men and snowballs. I must close now. with love to the Kiwi Band. —Red Certificate to Beryl Wall, age 9 years, Mareototara. Havelock North. ♦ * ft ft MY PET LAMB. Dear Chief Kiwis.—About two month’s ago Dad was going round the sheep when he found a lamb in a water-iace. He searched all round the paddock for its mother, but could not find her anywhere, so he brought it home and gave it to me for a pet. I named her Bunty. I got some milk in an old pie-dish, warmed it and tried to make Bunty drink. At first I put my finger in her mouth to teach her to suck, but in a day or two I just had to call Bunty and she wou’d com e and drink while I held the dish. Once she got sick, and would not drink, but Mum gave her some Epsom salt's in a bottle and she was quite well next day. Now I have always to put her out and shut the gate or she up on the verandah and sometimes she goes into the garden and eats the sweetpeas. One day Dad put two sheep with their lambs in the house paddock, and when Bunty was in she went to play with the other two lambs. They were having good ft; , but the other lambs ’ mothers kept Corning and pushing Bunty away as if they did not want her to play with their lambs. I am sending you a snap of Bunty which my brother took on Sunday. Love to you all. —Red certificate to Hannah Hallgarth, age 10 years. Private Ba; t Has ings. ft * ft ft OUR CALVES. Dear Chief Kiwi,—Thank vou for the red certificate you awarded me last week. This week lam going to tell vou about our calves. We have got seventeen, and the youngest is only a week old. It is great fun feeding them every night and morning. and sometimes they are very funny. One day one of them got her head caught in the bucket, and she ran away, spilling the milk down herself. After a let of running about we pulled it off her head. Some of the calves are very cheeky, especially Glory. If she does not get her tea first she pokes her head under the one that is being fed. and bunts her over on her back, then drinks the milk herself. One calf is my very own.. She was given to me by my Auntie, and I call her Winsome. I must close now. with lots of love and best wishes to all the Kiwi Band. —Red Certificate to Ernest Morgan, age 8 years, Clive.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 26 November 1927, Page 14
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755Essay Competition Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 26 November 1927, Page 14
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