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"A.L.", Kaitaia: Not at all. I have delivered your instructions, with note, to the firm in question from whom you will hear immediately. * * * "S.V.", Timaru: I should say it is more than likely that your small boy is over-strained in such an advanced standard. Do not hesitate to discuss the matter with his teacher. Health and happiness at that age, and all others, are all-important. % * * "A.R.", Blenheim: I think you are over-dramatising the situation. Life is not "completely upheaved" by a move from one social centre to another, however strange. Anyhow the question for you is, "Is he worth it?" Answer that and you answer both. % # * "O.J.", Eiffelton: Have posted detailed criticism. " Life" is hackneyed in theme. Try out your rhyming talent in word pictures of the simple things about you. Look up the word "platitude" in a really good dictionary-and then avoid them like the devil. "Pansies" is much better, though I won’t have the word "allure" at any cost: "massed in gay disorder, damp with morning mist" is better. Remember, ugliness can be interesting.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 38, 15 March 1940, Page 42
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181ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 38, 15 March 1940, Page 42
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