THE "GOOD ENDEAVOUR" LEAGUE FOR YOUNG READERS ONLY Aboard for the Goodwill Cruise!

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 115, 9 June 1941, Page 6

THE "GOOD ENDEAVOUR" LEAGUE FOR YOUNG READERS ONLY Aboard for the Goodwill Cruise!

What ho, what ho, ma hearties. Settling in again alter so long a trip takes a little doing. Yes I still feel my sea legs getting me, ant} every time I walk down the Strand I get a regular roll on. Well, I suppose all shipmates have got to settle down, {aid you've no idea of the! state of my old cabin, in. the cave on AVhale Island. The, ti-trce had almost grown right over the entrance, and inside I found that half of Butinsky's family had taken over and had camped in there from the day I left. I can tell you, I had regular job putting them out, and in the end called up the services of my old friend, who told them in plain goat language, just what he thought of them. Since then I been cleaning up. Well I thought I had seen some, pretty dirty places in the, course of our tour, but this just about beats all I know. I am now tiying io polish up my super magnifying telescope, by which me thod I am enabled, to sec you all and learn of everything that goes on in Whakatane. Its a job, but I'll soon have it in order and next week I'm going to tell you all what I thought of tha School Competitions. Yes. 1 have been talking them over "with Butinsky and he thinks that we should have had a special ticket to get in free. Being Scottish he doesn't believe in paying any more than I do if I can get out of ;t. Well that's enough for now. Byte, bye, till next week. Your'.s as ever Peter the Whaler.

A GOOD GAME UPS AND DOWN Here is a good paper game. The players are divided into two teams. Then cach player writes the letters of a given word down the side of a piece of paper, and then writes them upwards opposite to the first letters, so that the beginning and the final letters of the word lie opposite each other with a space between, and so on. During a given number of minutes the players fill in the spaces with letters so as to make words. When time is up, ench player in turn gives the meaning only of his first word, while the others try to guess what the word is. Each player who makes a first correct guess scores a point for his side. Then the second words are described in turn in the same way, and so on until the game is finished. JOKE CORNER Teacher: "Now, Jones, define exercise." Jones; "Elxereise is work what n feillow likes to do because it isn't work." Ml m * ■* Master: "Now, Jones, what part of speech is the word egg?" Jones: "Noun, sir." Master: "Quite right. And what gender?" Jones: "Can't say, sir." Master: "How'd you mean, can't say?" Jones: "Not till it's hatched, sir." m * « A waiter who had been charged with assaulting a Chinaman was taken before a magistrate. '"You are accused of breaking a soup plate over the Chinaman's head. Is that right?" asked the magistrate. "Quite right, sir," replied the waiter. "Any excuse to offer?" he was asiked. "Well, sir, he insulted me in broken Eiiglish, criekl the waiter, "so I replied in broken schina." m m M IK The son of the house gazed inGently at his father's dog. "T'vc got it at last," he mused to himself. "What have you got?" asked the father. "I know now why wo cnH Tony :i watch dog," replied the b-\v. "Why do we?" asked his fa'hr>r. The boy pointed to th:» animal, who. was turning round several times before lying down. "B-eause he has to kevp v.inding h"nis?!f iip." he .' ail. j

PETER THE WHALER p~ e/WHALE ISLAND

HOWLERS Some more mistakes made by boys and girls at school. "A National Govcrnmcmt is one that has no definite opinion at all, for it is made up of all sorts of political men and agitators who make friends and do nothing important and we get peaoe. Q: What is the differencei between 'mass' and "weight'? A: Mass is the thing. Weight is the same thing, but not exactly quite the same thing. "The Privy Council is the gathering t;f all the honourable men in the Empire, and is of no importance. "Guerilla warfare means up to their monkey ti'iclcs. "A parable is a short story describing something you have been told but did not understand. "Bankeir's discount is the part of your money in the bank that the banker does not count. "Capital punishment should be abolished in schools as many teachers are inclined to make too much use of it. "Bill of Rights: Parliament also made sure that they should be supreme over the Crown by limiting the king's abilities." LAST WEEK'S COMPETITION FIRST MATCH PUZZLE There were twenty-two answers, and only half of them correct. I'd like to give you all free picture, tieketsi but as I promised only three can be given to the three first received at the J3EACON which wem correct. Well here is the solution, the proper arrangement of the matches was like this

The winners • Pamela Gartshore. Charlie Armerr, Janet McLeod. NEXT WEEK'S COMPETITION HIDDEN NAMES Here is a list of the names of .some Avell-known businesses in Whakatane. See if you can "work them out and send in the solution to me. There are twenty-one names in all. The three answers with the most correct will receive free picture tickets with my best compliments. COBEAN GRAMRONTS DRIBREG TATERSNOP BRATBAN YES LA IC LACELAW PUPS LETS THEMPRO 1 SWATHEM RELCUT MALLTH TIiUX NALCEM TETTPIP HIWS INWN NOTES SMIBT T .EREHEW NOBO VULIALSN and KULE NIG A AN C TENK