NEXT WEEK'S COMPETITION

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 176, 21 June 1940, Page 2

NEXT WEEK'S COMPETITION

Here is another great Empire builder. Now who is lie? What I want you to' do is to tell me in your own words who you think he is and all you know about him. The three best answers will receive free picw ture tickets with my best ments. P.T.W. ,-W LAST WEEK'S COMPETITION CECIL JOHN RHODES Only 3 letters in answer to this competition, and yet I thought all my crew would know such a great man when they saw his picture. Yes it was Cecil Rhodes, the great South African who appeared last week. The three ticket winners are: Janette McLeod Bili Wallace , Cecily Cottrell. Janette's essay was so good that I am publishing it to let you- see how to go about it. "This week's competition is a picture of the Rl. Hon. Cecil John Rhodes, who was born at Bishop's Stortford, England, in 1852. In 1871 Rhodes went to South Africa ancl entered upon a diamond mining enterprise at Kimberley, and acquired a considerable fortune. He was a member of the Cape Government in 1881 and became Premier in 1890. He was afc' the head of the British South Africa Charted Company for which a large amount of territory was annexed. This territory is now named Rhodesia after the head of • the company. Cecil Rhodes was again premier in 1896 but after the Jameson raid on the Transvaal he retired from, political life. During the Boer War he was detained at Kimberley and died before the close of hostilities. As an Empire builder Rhodes was 1 amongst the greatest and not satisfied with the work he had done during his lifetime, he left the bulk of his fortune to the founding of scholarships at Oxford. In New Zealand the, .name of Rhodes is always associated with Rhodes Scholarships and many a young New Zealander who has won fame in the British Empire has had to thank Cecil Rhodes and his scholarship for the success he has attained." GAMES String a clothesline and give each player 10 stockings and 10 clothes-t pins. The game is to see who will be first to pin all the stockings on the line. Pins not securely fastened have a habit of popping off due to the earnest efforts of the others: using the same line, and many a player coming down the home stretch to apparent victory finds his labours undone. '' ... ■■ A KINDLY ACT Arms across the sea may mean helpfulness, instead of belligerency! 0 When the students of Berea College, Kentucky, learned that ther Chinese needed looms constructed for weaving cotton and woollen fabrics, they made accurate scale drawings, and sent them, together with instructions, to China. The , introduction of rayon has seriously crippled the silk weaving industry there, and great numbers of Chinese have been thrown out of employment. Their silk weaving looms were not suited to any other sort of weaving; but hands across the sea from Berea made it possible for them to resume their trade with cotton and wool, instead of silk. Thus the fabric, of brotherhood is woven in the loom of life!