THE "GOOD ENDEAVOUR" LEAGUE FOR YOUNG READERS ONLY

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 154, 12 September 1941, Page 6

THE "GOOD ENDEAVOUR" LEAGUE FOR YOUNG READERS ONLY

What ho, what ho, ma hearties. Back in port and shivering nights in my frosty cavc on Whale Island is not so good. Still we can't always be at sea visiting new places, can we? There must always Joe' a time when we come home and yarn of our adventures. I have started on my spring garden but I find that the frosts are stopping mv veges. from growing, and almost as "soon as I do put them in Butinsky gets round the back and eats them. I must run a fence round the plot or else set a number of rat traps that will nip him on the nose when he comes sniffing round my plants. The case" is getting more shipshape than I have seen it for many a day. I have all those wonderful mats we bought from South America on the floor, and some nice tapestry decorates the walls. There are lots of native curios from the islands that I have arranged inside and these look just A.I. On my bed is the heavy travelling rug we bought from Nome in Alaska and I really tliink it is the warmest bed covering I have ever had. I have beached the S.S. Good Endeavour, as her keel needs scraping badly. You've no idea what a lot of seaweed and shellfish can grow on the bottom of a ship after she had been at sea for any time. Its no wonder she was getting heavy in the water. You can see I have a good deal of work ahead of me, but I don't mind as I am looking forward to yet another trip. Oh but that's supposed to be a secret, I forgot. But in the late spring we have had a real invitation to go for a holiday to —where do you thing, Western Australia, yes! No less. A friend of mine wants us-

to go and stay on his sheep farm away in the never never, near some opal mines. Will we go; well just try and stop us. .Till next week, your old friend P.T.W.

FROM THE FAR NORTH MAN MEETS WITH ACCIDENT Francis Buliard had been 111 the Far North of Canada only a month when he met with an accident. Walking over the slippery ice of the frozen sea, he fell with such force that the ice broke under him. By desperate efforts he managed \to clamber back on to the ice, but the neighbouring Eskimos, snugly tucked aAvay within their igloos, or icehouses, did not hear his cries for help. He had lost his gloves and felt his hands freezing rapidly as he hurried home; he dare not put them in his pockets as he was continually slipping about on the ice l , and dreaded another fall. When at last he got back to the mission a brother missionary w?s just in time to prevent him rushing to the stove to warm his hands. To save .him, a cold bath was the first essential. After this, his. circulation was quickened by warm band" ages applied to the skin.

The mission station sent word by wireless to the doctor at Chesterfield, 300 miles away. The doctor wirelessed back instructions for treatment and urged that the patienL should be brought to him at once. It tooik four days to make the journey. A week later gangrene set in, and the doctor decided that the only hope of saving the missionary lay in taking the man by aeroplane a distance of over 1000 miles to St. Boniface, where there was a fully equipped hospital. The 'plane was hid up bv snowstorms and took a week, and by that time the patient was in a serious condition. At St. Boniface he had X-ray and other treatment. At first it looked as though his hands Avould have to be amputated, but instead the surgeons made deep incisions into his lingers, which will always be unnaturally thin in conscquence. With careful attention his ham 1 -. Improved, and in two weeks Mr Buliard was discharged as cured, n<j is now hard at Avork again in tli.> Far North. Johnnie: "What's the worst thing yon rati-find in a;i apple?" - Jimmy: "A coi'nr molli, of course" Johnnie: "Xo. a c diin mo!'! 1 "

for the Goodwill Cruise = PETER THE WHALER _ -of WHALE ISLAND

CHARMING LADY [ love to wear my Sunday dress That Mummie bought in town, My velvet coat with pretty bows And ribbons hanging down. [ love to hear the pcopl'e say 'How pretty Betty looks to-day!' But Nannie shakes her head antl says: 'You'll make her very vain.' And Granny says: 'She must be dressed [n everything that is the best.' And Daddy says: 'Good gracious, me 1 Who can this lovely lady be?'

TRY THIS

Here is an idea which I ( am sure will be Avelcomed by those of you who are fond of flowers and gardening. You will need an old piece of sponge, a packet of Virginia stock seeds, and a glass jam jar, which is your "greenhouse." Soak the sponge with water and put it on a saucer, then scatter some of the seeds over it and cover it wih the jam jar. Keep your "garden" near a window in a fairly warm room—the kitchen would do—and take the jar off the sponge for about half an hour each day. After a time you will have m crop of such pretty flowers. Never let the sponge get dry, though it must not be too wet. LAST WEEK'S COMPETITION HIDDEN GIRL'S NAMES I'll have to make the competitions harder I can see' that. All my crew are getting too smart for me. There were sixteen entries and the j;oks was that they were all right. Well all I could do was to judge them for neatness as* well and I have decid- ! Ed to give six prizes if Mr Editor, will allow me. Here are the winners Stella Hunter Ruth Dickson Louie Keep a Bernadtette McLaren Ann; Goodwin Elaine Cilark. A special one goes to Margaret Grant who has got the 'flu. J NEXT WEEK'S COMPETITION HIDDEN BOYS' NAMES i All last week's winners were girls. Now boys, here's your chance;., This will be open to you alone, and although my friends the girls can send in answers if they wish the prizes will only go to boys who guess the correct 'names. Now lads da your best. 1. I saw a big fat omnibus 2. Wei had; to climb a steep hill 3. When he fell he ricked his ankle 4. We all saw Charles lie down 5. He parked the auto by the beach 6. He remembered the Mount Harpet eruption 7. We gathered plums amounting to hundreds 8. Have you seen 'Luther Ryegrass'? 9. They did not rob intentionally 10. This wire is rather bent 11. He had farms at Bangor, Doncaster and Surrey 12. We did not like his conversation or manner Now, boys there are well known boys' names in each of the above sentences. Find them ami send the answers into Peter the Whaler and maybe, you'll win a free picture ticket. P.T.W. : JOKE CORNER A merry party was going on in one of the rooms of a hotel when the festivities were interrupted by 'in attendanl. who said: ''Gentlemen, I've been sent to ask you to make less noise. The guest in the next roc,in says lie can't read." "Can't read?" replied the host. "Well, tell him he ought to be ashamed of himself. Why, I could read ivhcn I was five."

Customer: I want a haircut, singe, shampoo, moustache clipped, beard trimmed. Where can I. put my cigar? Barber-: Suppose you keep it in your mouth, sir; it'll be 1 a sort of landmark. « ■ » • NeAv Maid: There is a gentleman outside who wants to speak to you. Master: What is he like? Maid: He has bandy legs, he i"> bald and fat—At first I thought it ivas you, sir. « • • • The milk waggon collided with ;i car and many bottles of milk were broken. A crowd gathered. "Poor fellow," said a benevolentlooking man, "you will have to pay for this accident, won't you?" "Yes, sir," said the driver. "That's too bad. Here's a shilling towards it, and I'll pass the hat for you." After the crowd had contributed and dispersed, the driver said to a bystander: "Ain't he smart! That's the boss."