A LITTLE WORLD FOR LITTLE PEOPLE

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 16, 9 April 1927, Page 22

A LITTLE WORLD FOR LITTLE PEOPLE

SILVER WHISTLES

ALL this week Tiptoe Street has been thronged with pixie postmen three fingers high and each supplied with a little silver whistle. Happy Town has been filled with their elfin music and the Little Thought has had to act as traffic policeman and marshal them in one by one. “This way ! Hold hard there! Advance you on the right!” he has been calling and the important little postmen have marched bravely in bent double under their burdens. Happy Town has been besieged by letters, long letters, little letters, square letters, big, plump, double-postage letters, and as the Dawn Lady opened them, out flashed scores of new Sunbeams to mingle with the sunshine. Then there were piles of long cardboard rolls encasing splendid drawings, and many essays and poems from talented Sunbeams’ pens. The prizes were carefully locked up in the Place-of-You-Xever-Can-Tell until the Little Thought had said, “Bight about turn! Quick march!” to the very last postman. Then he stood guard over the contributions while the Dawn Lady put on her spectacles and wig. It was no easy task to sit in judgment on so many fine efforts and to single out the merits of each. The best drawings and poems were especially hard to select. The results and prize-winning contributions will be found elsewhere on this page, and the Little Thought, the pixie postmen and the man who keeps the Joy Shop, all join me in congratulating you on your splendid work.