YOUNG ENTHUSIASTS.
Further pleasant evidence of the progress made by the Forest and Bird Protection Society is seen in the ever-increasing enrolment of boys and girls—the future possessors of New Zealand. The young folk write some charming letters to the Society—and now and then one makes a delightful sally into verse. For example, here is a heart-touching letter to the secretary from Nion Shaw, who lives away up at Taupaki, North Auckland:— “One day when my two sisters, a friend and I were tramping up to the bush, we had to cross the road. There, lying on the road, was a poor helpless yellow-hammer with one leg broken. When we had picked it up my sister cuddled it up in her warm hands while we three went out to gather straw. Soon we came to a bridge, and it was my turn to hold the bird. While I was holding it, it stood up in my hand and flew over into a totara tree on the other side of the stream. We were all very glad to know that it had recovered.
“I very much enjoy the little books I receive from you. It is my hope to be a life member some day.”
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Forest and Bird, Issue 36, 1 May 1935, Page 7
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204YOUNG ENTHUSIASTS. Forest and Bird, Issue 36, 1 May 1935, Page 7
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