A THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK.

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 364, 27 October 1932, Page 3

A THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK.

— Sidney

Smith.

| | Life is to be fortified by many J friendships. To love and be loved i is the greatest happiness of existj ence.

! ROYALTY ON HOLIDAY Free for once from all public engagements, the King and Queen recently enjoyed a quiet, restful holiday j at Sandringham^, which, with its peaee- , ful country setting and lovely gardens, I is perhaps the best loved of their j several homes. The weather was peri fect, and most of their time was spent in the gardens, or in short drives through the pictufesque Norfolk j countryside or along the sea front at ' Hunstanton. The King always atj tends to his correspondence and State j documents in the eomfortable glass- . shuttered summer house that is almost ; an exact replica of the one in Buck- ' ingham Palace gardens. The sumi merhouse overlooks the lake, with its J wildflower border, and in the foreground are beds of stocks and sweet j williams, grouped in a riot of colour ! round the ancient sundial. Pheasants are allowed the run of the gardens, j which is a sanctuary for innumerable J birds of a score of different varieties, I and usually the King feeds them in a ■ secluded corner of the garden by the : lake. Close by is the rock garden , that is' the Queen's favourite corner, ; and with the head gardener her Ma1 jesty has planned many improvement® for this particular portion of the garden. During her stay at Sandringham the Queen always supervises the making qf pot pourri from the roses in the dairy garden, and the gathering of lavender fi'om the long, sweetscented borders. The lavender is packed into sachets, and a few specially privileged friends x-aceive some of tbe bags of Sandringham lavender : each summer.