THE "GOOD ENDEAVOUR" LEAGUE

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 4, 28 April 1939, Page 3

THE "GOOD ENDEAVOUR" LEAGUE

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4iioy there! What ho, my hearties.. Peter the Whaler speaking from Whale Island, and I've a whole heap to tell you. Already I've got a crew of eleven for the goodwill course and I think every one of them will be first class merry sailormen. I have vacancies for heaps more so join along my hearties and let me see how you can help me sail the S.S. Good Endeavour. I spied through my super, extra, jewellecLin.ten-holes telescope the Anzac Day service held at Pohalast Tuesday and was impressed. Last week I saw the bathing in the Awakeri Hot Springs. They were haying a good time too, but I did not see any real, ly good first class sailormen amongst them. Well I have had a busy time enrolling the new members and getting them a berth. I have sent out certificates and I expect they «re now enjoying the cruise. All the best until next Friday. Yours to a shrimp's whisker. PETER THE WHALER. THIS WEEK'S STORY \ A4&WING FOR REGINALD ROBIN r ■ In Farmer Ben's barn the plump pink pig, whose happy home was partly inside the barn, where he had what you might call his house, and partly outside the barn, wher# lie had what you might call his front yard, had been by himself most of the day. * It was a warm daj' for the la.tu autumn and Pig had spent most of it ~Wftt of doors in the Sunshine, though it was cool enough to persuade him to go in the barn now and "then when he felt like taking a nap. When it really* got cold Farmer Ben would close off the front yard, and he would stay in the bam all day; Pig didn't mind that, for when It was really cold Farmer~Ts£rFs calm capable cow and his stout stroricS horse would be in the barn to keep him company, to say nothing of fte_ ginald Robin who had a nest for th<* winter in, the hay. But to.dajr being so warm and almost like summer, the calm capable cow and the stout strong horse and Reginald Robin had been out of the barn and the plump pink pig had had it most of the time to himself. evening, Pig/' mooed the calm capable cow, coming in with the stout strong horse just before sufcjßfct. "Sorrj; you couldn't, have been with us. Pig," neighed the stout strong horse. "We've been in the south pas. ture. Not much grass left, but not so bad what there is of it." don't like grass/' grunted t.hc pltfpip pink pig. "I've been quite comfortable here in my pen, thanls you. All I wanted to eat too.'" "Has, Reginald come in yet?" mooed the calm capable cow. "He'd better be in. Farmer Ben has gonrj to the house for something, but he may be back any minute to shut the barn ydoor." in,'' chirped Reginald Robin. <4 Up here, swinging on a rope, I don't know where it came from, for it wasn't here this morning. But it's great to swing on. Good as a clothesline " "I see you now,» mooed the calm capartjfcow. "How you ca n swing on a "astonishes me. If I tried to jawing on a rope I would fall off in less than, one wave of my tail. But I never saw a rope up there before. " "It's too high up for Farmer Ben to halig anything on," neighed the stout strong horse. "That's what I was going to tell you about," grunted the plump pink pig. "I saw Farmer Ben put it up and I've wondered ever since what he thought he was doing it for." "It must have been quite a job too/Vneighed the stout strong horse. ''It was,'' grunted the plump pink pig. "He brought in a ladder and climbed up and drove a nail i n the wood. And then he climbed down and dragged the ladder across the barn ftoor and climbed up and drove another nail in the wood, and climb. «d clown and dragged the ladder back teethe first place and climbed up anii tied one end of a long rope «-o the nail he had driven in, and climbed down and dragged the ladder across the barn floor and climbed up

Aboard for the Goodwill Cruise by PETER THE WHALER of WHALE ISLAND

and tied the other end of the rope to the nail he had driven in, there. And then he climbed down and carried away the ladder.* 7 "I know what he was doing it for" chirped Reginald Robin. "And what for indeed?" mooed and neighed and grunted the calm capable cow, the stout strong horse and the plump pig. "He was putting it up for me to swing on,'' chirped Reginald Robin. LAST WEEK'S COMPETITION JUMBLED SHOP NAMES All the answers were correct and dear, dear me I got quite a heath ache thinking who I should give fvee picture tickets to. Well the Editor said he would allow me to give them to everyone who sent in the right answers, as it was the first issue of the "Beacon." So here we are my hearties here are the proper answers:—■ MATTHEWS GRIBERDS CAALLEWLDMC SPATONTER THORPME HILETWT TRIVET HARPS MAFRESR DRATGIN STURHRAFERZ YELSAIC TENIC NACINGN BERGIDB ROMEO GARRSTMON KEY MATTHEWS BRIDGERS D. McL WALLACE PATTERSON MORPETH WHITTLE RIVETT SHARP FARMERS TRADING FRAZERHURST CAISLEY KENT CANNING GIBBERD MOORE ARMSTRONG * # * » And here are the winners: JEAN GREY GERALD GAIITSHORE REG PARRY DICK LITTLEJOHN ANN LITTLEJOHN PAMELA GAIITSHORE COLEMAN HAYNES W. RIVETT DOROTHY BARTON R OWEN A WOODS VALERA WOODS Congratulations shipmates your free picture tickets, await you at the "Beacon" Office. P.T.W.

AN 1M ALITIES SOME RIDDT.ES FOR HOME Q: Why did the •!>' fl 3'? A: Isecau.sc the spider spiedjicr. * * * * Q: Why did the owl 'owl? A: Jsecause the woodpecker would peck-'er. a « * • Q: Why did the cluck duck? A: Because the rooster roost her., * * * *E Q: Why is a church bell more polite than, an organ? A: Because a church bell rings when its ''tolled'' and an organ says, '•I'll be blowcd before I play. **