Boys and Girls...
This corner, all you young folks, is for you and your interests. This is where we tell you, week by _ week, about what is being put over the air for you, just as the grown-ups have their own pages with their own programmes. So make sure that you, too, "Look Before You Listen."
| N ) ANY of you younger people will remember "Down the Pixie Path," a radio story for little children which was broadcast from the YA Stations some months ago. It was all about the adventures of Michael, a small boy who was just like any other little boy except for his ears, These were pointed, pixie ears, and gave Michael a passport to Pixieland, where he met many strange people and heard many songs and poems about them. The person who wrote the poems, Miss Mary C. Hall, has said that we may print them on this page for you to read. This first one is about a hungry letterbox, and as it has already appeared in the "Sydney Morning Herald," Australian boys and girls know all about it, too.
LETTER-BOX One day I saw a letter box Looking through a fence, There were palings all around it, And the gate was just immense, It had a blank expression And it’s mouth was open wide, And I wished I had some letters, Bulgy ones, to. poke inside.‘ Then 1 saw the postman Coming down that way, With a great big: bag of letters, ’Cos it was a busy day, He looked once at the letter box And tapped it on the chin, Then blew his whistle shrilly, And-pusked a letter in. The letter box just shut its mouth And then it licked its jaws, It seemed to me to flick its ears And wipe them with its paws, But coming home from school next day, I walked along that side, And when I saw the letter box, Its mouth was just as wide.
Serials and Talks to Interest You: "Coral Cave": Monday, 1YA 5.40 p.m Friday, 2YA 5.40 p.m. "Uncle Tom’s Cabin": Monday, 3YA 5 p.m "Richard the Lion Heart": Tuesday, 2YH 5.45 p.m. "Little Women": Friday, 2YH 6.45 p.m. "Westward Ho!": Tuesday, Wednesday, 3ZR 5.46 p.m.; Saturday, 2YH 5.45 p.m. " Robin Hood": Monday, 3ZR 5 p.m. "Tanglewood Tales": 4YZ Monday and Friday, 5.30 p.m. " David and Dawn and the Sea Fairies": Tuesday, 4YZ 5.30 p.m.; Thursday, 3ZR 5 p.m; 4¥Z 5.30 p.m. "David and Dawn in Fairyland": Friday, 1YA 5.40 p.m. " Paradise Plumes and Head Hunters"? Wednesday, 4YZ 5.30 p.m. " Ait Adventures of Jimmie Allen": 1ZB, 2ZB, 3ZB, 4ZB, at 6.15 p.m., Mone day, Wednesday, Thursday. " Oliver Twist": Tuesday, 2YH 6.45 p.m. " Riding the Surt Board": Round the World Series. A talk by Mr. Leon Gotz. Saturday, 1YA 5.40 p.m. "Careers for Boys-The Office": Talk by Mr. A. M. Hatch. Wednesday, 3YA 5.45 p.m. " Careers for Girls-Library Work": Mr, Ernest Bell. Friday, 3YA 5.45 p.m.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/periodicals/NZLIST19390728.2.30
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 5, 28 July 1939, Page 27
Word count
Tapeke kupu
491Boys and Girls... New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 5, 28 July 1939, Page 27
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Material in this publication is protected by copyright.
Are Media Limited has granted permission to the National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa to develop and maintain this content online. You can search, browse, print and download for research and personal study only. Permission must be obtained from Are Media Limited for any other use.
Copyright in the work University Entrance by Janet Frame (credited as J.F., 22 March 1946, page 18), is owned by the Janet Frame Literary Trust. The National Library has been granted permission to digitise this article and make it available online as part of this digitised version of the New Zealand Listener. You can search, browse, and print this article for research and personal study only. Permission must be obtained from the Janet Frame Literary Trust for any other use.
Copyright in the Denis Glover serial Hot Water Sailor published in 1959 is owned by Pia Glover. The National Library has been granted permission to digitise this serial and make it available online as part of this digitised version of the Listener. You can search, browse, and print this serial for research and personal study only. Permission must be obtained from Pia Glover for any other use.
Log in