A DAY AT WANGANUI.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 December 1920, Page 3 (Supplement)

A DAY AT WANGANUI.

(Cis Callaghan, Raupnha; aged 11 y.jai'3) The most interesting day of my life was spent a year ago last January. I was staying in Wanganui for my summer holidays, and early on the morning of January 22, "Anniversary Day", 1 and my friends caught an early tram which conveyed us to Oastleeliff. We spent a glorious time on tho sand and wading in tho surf. We also had a good time on the swings, but the best event was an exhibition' of lifesaving given by the Oastleeliff LifeSaving Society. It was fine to -. ( . them bringing in what appeared to us onlookers a drowned man, and Hum restoring hrm to life. About three o'clock in the afternoon we returned to town and paid a visit to the Museum. The first thing we did there was to get weighed and have our fortunes told. This was done nu a machine. We stood on it, and by pu ug a penny in a slot a ticket jumped out of another slot, and our weight and fortune were on it. T still have my ticket, which says: "Pay more attention to detail; it is important." The Museum contains a fine collection of birds, animals, fish and insects. There was a "room nearly full of old-fashioned armor. Some of it was very funny-looking, and the soldiers in the olden days must have looked and felt very funny in it. The battle-axes and spears also looked so different to the rides which our soldiers carry now. Another very interesting room is'full of Maori curios, the mats and carvings being really beautiful. I liked seeing all the different things because when I read about them now I know exactly what they look like. In the evening we went to the pictures and saw Charlie Chaplin in one of his funniest moods. I was dreadfully tired when I went, but T laughed so much that I forgot all about it. When I take mv lunch to school I always leave the nicest piece of cake to eat last, so I have left writing about the nicest event of that dav until the end. Von will wonder what it is. Well, it was the first time in my life that I tasted ice-cream—and it' was good.