THE "GOOD ENDEAVOUR" LEAGUE FOR YOUNG READERS ONLY

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 74, 13 October 1939, Page 2

THE "GOOD ENDEAVOUR" LEAGUE FOR YOUNG READERS ONLY

Aboard for the Goodwill Cruise i£/ °y —PETER THE WHALER of WHALE ISLAND

Wei!, ma hearties, and how do you like Java? You all seem to have had

a very interesting time of it. In the native bazaar last evening 1 caught sight of Steward Kelvin Hatcher and Midshipman George Ramson, buying some beautiful silks. Who are they for my lads. I'll bet you have some one in mind when you get home. The Midshipmaids too, are having a good time strolling along the foreshore, and visiting the beautiful native temples. Yesterday we all attended an exhibition by the temple dancers. Midshipmaids Rowena Woods, Jean Crev and Cecily Sullivan were in charge of the crew for the day, and everyone behave magnificently. Java is certainly a very wonderful place as you see, and the little people are most courteous to, strangers and try to do their besi ied their origin think that they to please. Some men who have studcame in the first place from India, and inter-married with lighter skinned people on the shores of the Pacific. As you can see, of course, they are lighter in colour than the Indians, but are very like them in features I should think too that they are much .shorter than the Indians. Notice their fondness for colour too, how all their clothes are of tlio brightest shades. That crew, for instance sitting along the wharves, do they not in the distance resemble a bed of tulips. Well, next week 1 have a real surprise in store for you. Listen, and I'll tell you—we're going to visit Bali, an island which some travellers say is the most beautiful

place on earth

OUR STORY

808 AND BILL P>y S.K.M. Ones upon i\ time, in the long, long ago, there were two little men called Bob and Bill. They were ever so small, as small as Daddy's footrule. 'They always dressed in green; hat, shoes, stockings and everything, so, anany people called them the Little Green Men. They had a dear little hut, just big enough for them on the beach of a big sea; and had such lovely times, I will try to tell you some of their adventures. One da,y they woke up; it was a lovely day; so after they had tidied the hut and eaten their breakfast, >vhich iWas a few crumbs of bread and a thimbleful of milk, they went outside, and Bob said "Oh, I wish I could fly over that mountain, and see what is on the .other side." Now. no sooner had he said this than they heard a laugh. It was a big laugh, and for a moment they felt quite frightened; until they ssw just behind them a jolly looking Giant. He was called Giant Jolly-face as he aliways had a, laugh for everybody. Giant Jolly-face said "Hullo, little men; if that's all you want I can easily take you to see." And Bob said "How lovely!" and Bill said "My, that hvould be fine!" So Giant Jolly-face took them into his hands, one in each hand, and popped them into his pocket; Bill in the rigihthand pocket and Bob in the left, with their heads sticking up. Then off he strode, and in a very few minutes, had reached the top of the hill which to the little green men seemed a huge mountain. "Now look," he said, and they both looked and saw a most wonderful castle; so, large they couldn't see anything else. "That's where I live" the Giant said. "Good gracious" said Bill, "what a huge place." "Not too Ligj for .me" the Giant said. "But come and j;ee for yourselves. So he strode down the hill and soon came to the castle. "Ho, Ho, anyone about?" he .shouted, and poor Bob and Bill were nearly deaf with the noise. In a moment lots of servants came out bowing low to their master. These ser-

.van's were just about as big as Mummy a ml Dtkldy, not nearly so big as Giant Jo!!y-iae<\ Said the Giant "These ai'e my little guests** and lie took them out of his pockets and, put them on the ground. "We must all do what we can to make; them happy, while they are here." "Wo will" they cried. "Well first let's have something to eat* said the Giant. So they went indoors and

there was a huge table, full of all the most wonderful tilings to eat 4

But it was so high lip and the chairs vcre so big that Bob and Bill thought "Well, we can't reach anything." However, the kind Giant ordered two small boxes to be put right on the table, and lifted the little men on to them. Then one of the servants came with a small stool and put that in front of them for a table so they made a big meal of scraps taken from the choicest things on the table. You should have seen the huge platefuls of food that Giant Jolly-face ate, and then called for more. Afterwards, the Giant said, "Now shall wc go and look for Peter?" Of course, Bob and Bill didn't know who Peter was, but they said very politely, "Oh, yes, please; we should love it!" So the Giant lifted them* clown to the floor and they all went outside. There seemed nobody near but the Giant said in his big voice, "Ho, Ho, Peter, come here you lazy fellow." Now, when he said this the} 7 saw a beautiful big eagle fly down from the roof, and wonderful to say, they heard him answer, "Well, can't a bird have a nap without beitng shouted at." The Giant laughed and laughed and said "I don't believe you do anything else but sleep." Theni Peter laughed too and it was so funny to hear him laugh. "Well," he said, "what do you want of me now lam here?" Giant Jolly-face said "First, I want you to know my friends Bob and Bill, and secondly I want you to think of a nice littfe excursion you can take them.

(To be continued). THIS WEEK'S COMPETITION THE SPIDER ON THE WALL Sent in by Chief Stoker D. Brockett. A spider was trying to climb a wall 20 feet high. He climbed u,p 4 feet every day and fell back 3 feet every night. llow long did it ta*ke the spider to reach the top? The first three to send in correct answers will receive free picture tickets with P.T.W.'s compliments. The Chief Stoker is on honour not to tell the solution. JUNIOR COMPETITION . MIXED ANIMALS (For members under 10 j~ears) Try to work out what these animals are and the first two correct answers will receive free picture tickets. Here is a chance to try your luck. OWC LOFW EABR RTGIE I-IRESO LRWSAU INOLi TKINET BLMA AHLEPETN LAUGHING King Ber-Rolly, Was so jolly When he laughed things tumbled down Matches, candles, Keys and handles, And, of course, his golden crown. Such a rumbling, And a tumbling, When King Roily laughed a lot. In the Palace, Housemaid Alice, Ran about till she was hot. A hither, thither, All a-dither, Picking up things tumbled down,, Cups and dishes, Bowls of fishes, And, of course, his golden crown. ; DETAILS OF JOINING. Five year? and under: Waterbabies. Eight years and over five. Stokers, stewards and deckhands. Fourteen and over eight. Engineers, midshipmen, and petty officers