LITTLE SOUTHLANDERS’ CHRONICLE

Southland Times, Issue 24890, 2 November 1942, Page 6

LITTLE SOUTHLANDERS’ CHRONICLE

My dear Cousins, Now is the time to start making gifts for Father Christmas to distribute at the hospital on our Hospital Day. This year there will be the usual competitions for gifts suitable for children and grownups, and there will also be a Christmas stocking competition, and a prize for the best calendar. I want to see if, this year, we can make a present for each patient. Usually we have had to buy some of the gifts for the adults, but there is not the same selection in the shops this year, and in any case the gifts you make yourselves are appreciated more. Show me what you can do. Start now, and plan your gifts for the hospital. The competitions will be announced next week. Your loving

BIRTHDAYS

—PRIZE— Birthdays are so lonely, Only one a year, If we had any more than that We’d soon grow old, I fear. When we are little children, We wish the days would fly, Instead of creeping slowly on, And bring our birthdays nigh. We always look for presents, Something large or small; If Mother makes a special tea, 'Tis sure to please us all. We like to have a special cake And lots of things so sweet, Nuts and fruits and lollies, too. Just for a birthday treat. —Prize of 1/- to Cousin Isabel McEwen (14), 87 Morton street,

—PRIZE— Birthdays come and birthdays go, And older and older do we grow. Out of the ’teens Into twenties. On and on till we reach the nineties. "Happy Birthday” Is a familiar greeting; When we are two, ten or twenty;

We always like to have birthdays With greetings and presents a-plenty. —Prize of 1/- to Cousin Mary McKillop, A.C. (11), 228 Princes street.

—PRIZE— Birthdays are such happy times Which every one enjoys, Where songs are sung, where games are played, For all the girls and boys. The cake It stands there tall and straight. Its candles all alight, Which children dance and frolic round, All through the happy night. —Prize of 1/- to Cousin Carmen McKenzie (13), King street, Otautau,