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  2. BUTTER-BOX TREE.

    There is romance even in a butter-box. if we trace it back to its origin in the southem hemisphere—the New Zealand white pine, or, to give it its Maori name, the kahikatea. The ...

    Article : 698 words
  3. PHILATELY.

    The new postage stamps of the Territory of Papua are now available at the post-offices of Port Moresby and Samarai, and have been since Monday, November 14. These stamps ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 864 words
  4. JEAN RACINE.

    Jean Racine, one of the most celebrated of French writers and dramatists, the son of a solicitor, was born at La Ferte-Milon on December 21, 1639, nearly three hundred years ...

    Article : 1,001 words
  5. THE GRAIN RACE, 1932.

    Although a trip across the Tasman Sea from Auckland to Sydney in the nine-ton ketch Oimara last year was adventure to a lad of 21, it did not quell my desire for more. ...

    Article : 1,129 words
  6. REZA SHAH.

    Modem Persia, with its aggressive foreign policy and its rapid movement towards "westernisation," is the creation of one man-Reza Shah, who, 11 years ago was an obscure ...

    Article : 1,404 words
  7. MOST FAMOUS OF ALL THE CLIPPERS, THE CUTTY SARK.

    Now lying in Falmouth harbour and used by her owner, a retired sea captain, as a private training school for young mercantile officers. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 32 words
  8. DEW PONDS.

    A recent article in the "Herald" has reminded me of an investigation that I made into this subject while in England. After Kingsford (now Sir Kingsford) Smith ...

    Article : 642 words
  9. FOR THE CHILDREN. PLAY THE GAME.

    Ee-na, Dee-na, Di-na, Doe, Catch a nig-ger by the toe. You know, what we play at school. And of course, it is the rule— ...

    Article : 123 words
  10. PALACE THEATRE.

    The Palace Theatre in New York, famous among theatrical people the world over, is closing down. Even now talking films are probably trailing their shadows across the ...

    Article : 698 words
  11. BERT THE BANDICOOT.

    A big, fat, cheeky bandicoot pays nocturnal visits to quite a few backyards in Maximstreet, West Ryde, and pitted lawns tell the story of his hunt for underground tit-bits. ...

    Article : 209 words
  12. THE MYSTERY.

    Whenever I come home from school, I always know it is the rule, That I must change my good school clothes I must not play around in those. ...

    Article : 84 words
  13. ELFLAND.

    With the coming of the dawn, the little elfin folk, from hill and glade and stream, retire to rest Their impish faces fade away, and their prankish laughter vanishes with ...

    Article : 210 words
  14. LILIES OF THE VALLEY

    What a delightful experience it is for travellers in foreign lands to discover, from time to time, their garden flowers blooming wild in a native state in woods and meadows[?] ...

    Article : 388 words
  15. CRICKET ON THE GREEN.

    Spring had a happy harbinger in the rerent rains. For many seasons the vernal lady has not been so well treated. But she is not slow to recognise a favour, which she retuins ...

    Article : 350 words
  16. CHRISTMAS ISLAND STAMP.

    This beautiful postage stamp was printed before the Ysabel-May was lost in 1918. It was then, you remember, that the three inhabitants of Christmas Island were left ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 395 words
  17. SUMMER WISH.

    It's getting hotter every day; Much too hot to stay away From the cool dark green-blue sea. If I were given just one wish, ...

    Article : 70 words
  18. JEAN RACINE.

    Great French poet and dramatist. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 7 words
  19. THE SEA ROAD.

    The red road winds and the blue miles glitter, The tea-tree powders on branch and bough A bridal veil for the season, fitter For Eden than earth, by the sea road now. ...

    Article : 252 words
  20. OF MAKING SONGS.

    Because an old desire I had Bound my faint hands upon my pen, So that when I was moved or glad My thoughts turned music—now and then. ...

    Article : 165 words
  21. THE WATERFALL.

    Hark to the sound of the waterfall dripping! As over the rocks it is leaping and skipping And gathering speed it goes merrily dashing While deep down below you can still hear it ...

    Article : 141 words
  22. SUNSET LAND.

    Creaming surf on the yellowing strand, Smother of foam far out on the bar; Crimson and gold in Sunset land, Sparkle and gleam of the Evening Star. ...

    Article : 143 words
  23. WHY PANSIES SMILE.

    The fairies are no more, they say—and yet I found a skirt of thistle down dew wet. A broken wing of silken jewelled lace, Held by a kiss to a pansy's tear-stained face. ...

    Article : 77 words
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