LETTERS TO COLLEEN

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 638, 16 September 1933, Page 8

LETTERS TO COLLEEN

RED ROSE.

ROXANE.

Dear Colleen, — I suppose you will think I have a ■big letter this week. I have found some children to join and I am sending in their coupons for them, in case they should forget, as this is the last week for the competition.. Some of the children will send in riddles or jokes this week, and will do the competitions next time. I went t0 Auckland for my holidays and I had a lovely time. I left Rotorua hy train on Monday, August 21. When I arrived, my Auntie was at the station to meet me, and we got on the tram and werit to Queen St., where we hoarded another tram to go home to Richmond Avenue. I had a lovely time, as Auntie took me out every day. We went through ' all the big shops aiid I saw many pretty things that I would have loved ■to buy, hut I had not much money, as I had to pay tram fares and my pennies soon disappeared. One night, my Auntie was going to "A Back to Childhood Party," and she said she would take me with hei*. Everybody looked funny in short dresses up ahove their knees, and big ribbons on their hair. I also made a visit to Birkenhead to see another Auntie, and I stayed there for a feW days, and, of course, I was in the train when the accident occurred and we were delayed over an hour, and I thought I never would get home. I was wondering if we could take ■our entries to the Morning Post office and hand them in . Do you think it would be possible to have a box on the counter or outside the door where we could slip our entries in?

A Trip to Okere. Dear Colleen, — I have had such a lovely time this week. My best trip, I think, was to Okere, which I thought absolutely splendid. We were a party of three; we left the post office at 9.30 a-m-> arriving there at 10.45 a.m. We went

down to the rapids roaring and swirldng beneath the bridge, the water was really fase'inating, one mass of foam. After seeing the i?apids, we saw a gentleman in a paddock who kindly allowed us to leave our bikes under a shady willow tree. We then set out sightseeing. To the falls we went, clown some sttps to where there are huge wooden tanks which are filled with water by a pump from the falls for use, I think, at the power station, which is situated close by. The falls were very pretty, with bush on either side. They are the outlet of Lake Rotoiti into Lake Rotorua. We had to make enquiries how to ■get to the caves, and a gentleman directed us down a path which we followed -and came to some more steps which the Maoris are supposed to have carved out with sh'ells, about half way down is a lookout overlooking the falls, carved out of solid rock. ' Arriving at the bottom are the caves. We ventured inside and found crevices in the floor into which the M'aoris lowercd jlheir women and children in times of attack. It is all very wcird and wonderful and well worth •ihe time and trouble of getting there. We arrived home at 3.30 p.m., tired hut happy.