OUR COMPETITIONS

Taranaki Daily News, 16 December 1921, Page 6 (Supplement)

OUR COMPETITIONS

(Freda Duckworth, Std. 3, Fitzroy School.) All children as they grow form ambitions of what they wish their future lives to be. 1 would like to travel to different countries as a companion-nurse to an elderly or invalid lady. I intend studying in primary schools so as to be able to attend the secondary school and learn languages and obtain higher education fitting me for the position that I wish to occupy later' on. Music is also included in this, as many a weary or delicate person is soothed with melody. After I complete this course I wish to take up nursing, and learn to take care of the sick and injured. When I am twenty-one I hope to be able to start on my travels, and find a lady requiring a travelling companion. I hope to start for America, calling at the different islands on the way. Tahiti is a lovely island, where all kinds of fruit grow, such as oranges, cocoanuts, and many others. 1 would also like to visit Raratonga and Honolulu, the latter place having an acquarium that is talked of for its size and beauty. Then America, with its large buildings and busy thoroughfares and many factories of interest. From there I would go to England and visit all the beautiful seaside resorts and botanical gardens, and the factories which are always of such interest to those who travel. After seeing all these things of interest and beauty in England. I would come back to our little • Dominion, and settle down in a home of my own.

(Frank Bell, Std. 3, Fitzroy School.) Everybody ought to have an ambition, and mine is to be a farmer. The reason I am going to be a farmer is that I am going to live a happy life: and why I am going to live a happy life, is, that all my work is done in the open air. It is a good thing to be a farmer, because we are really helping the people in the country to live. I will sell milk, which will be taken to a factory, and churned into butter, and also made into cheese, which some people like very much. 1 will keep some pigs and fatten them; then sell them to a butcher, who will make good use of them, for he will sell them for more than he bought them and so make money. I can also fatten cows and sell them for meat; but their skin is not wasted, it goes through machines, and is made into leather for boots, and many other things. I will keep sheep and sell them also. Their flesh is called mutton, and then wool is put into many machines, and it is made into long threads of wool for making clothes. You can study many things on a farm, learn how to work machines for milking the cows, if you take the milking machine, you can put it together in different ways and make it interesting by learning these different ways. You will seldom get sick, for there is plenty of fresh air to breathe. When sick people have just came out of bed and are getting well they are nearly always sent into the country, where they can bree ie fresh air. I* hope all the boys in our school will become farmers when they grow up. (William Bounsall. Std. 3, Fitzroy School.) My greatest ambition is to be a farmer, because 1 like it. We all know there is hard-work on farms in the backblocks. I don’t want to have a farm down by the coast, but about three miles inland, where the land is not sandy, or where the stones cover the land. A farm of forty acres is enough for one man to take on properly. Some people have taken about seventy acres for one person alone, and have found that it was too much for them. On my farm I should like to have at least four horses—one for a trap, two for ploughing, and another for the milkcart. Many times I have made up my mind to have a good garden instead of buying the things at stores. I don’t know much about anything else but farming, and therefore farming is my ambition. Before going on a farm I should like to get experience from a good farmer who knows it all. I can see quite clearly that if I go on something which I know nothing about I shall lose. Last of all, I’ll try to get a motor-car, sell it, and make a profit. Next, I shall voyage to England, and stay for several weeksr- I’ll next go to Australia, and see the animals and finish the remainder of my life in pleasure in Canterbury in the South Island.

(Bruce Reid, Westown School. Std. 1.) I wish most to be a pilot, bold and brave, and to fight for the old, old country. I want to drop bombs on every enemy possible during any war, that is, if there is one. . / . There are many accidents in a pilot s work, but I am not afraid of accidents, no not 1! I did get a little scared at the aeroplane accident, but I have got over that now. But why should I be a pilot? Because I want to fight for the old country. Most people would say it is a dangerous job, but I do not think so.

(Murial Mills, Westown School, Std. 1.) I am going to write an essay on My Greatest Ambition —and why? Mv greatest ambition is to be a traveller, and to go all over the world. Why I would like to be a traveller is because I could learn many things on mv travels. I could also make very much money by telling people about the world. , Mv plan would be to take heads and tovs to sell to the natives. I would also kill snakes, and bring their skins to (his country to sell. Another of my ideas would bi* to bring rice, tea, sugar, and manv things to this country. I could get* gold and silver from the natives for a few beads. I would kill lions and tigers, and make mats with their fine skins. Up in the trees I could <ret small monkeys and bears to tame. As there are too many things to mention, this will end my story.

'MY GREATEST AMBITION AND WHY.” (For School Children up to Standard 3.) Three Prizes (equal), 10/6 each. Freda Duckworth (Fitzroy). Frank Bell (Fitzroy). William Bounsall (Fitzroy).