THE "GOOD ENDEAVOUR" LEAGUE

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 83, 22 June 1945, Page 6

THE "GOOD ENDEAVOUR" LEAGUE

What ho what ho ma hearties. Well I certainly think it's about time all these frosts, stoppei for n while. Yesterday I ay as going down the track at about G o'clock in the morning'. As you know there \w.s a heavy frosty and the track was just one big frozen footpath. Anyway } I. was about hall" way down when suddenly my foot slipped I sat aown on the track, and before i kin.AV where I was I . was skating a*\ ay f down the hill 011 my trousers. 1 let out a yell of course j and Butinsky Peterkin and McDougall all rushed out of the cave to see what was wrong. When they saw me sliding away down the track they all thought it was a great and positively howled with glee. Butinsky was standing on the top of the track and Peterkin could not resist the temptation. He gave Butinsky one great shovc. ; and before poor old Butinsky knew where, he was he was sliding down after me. Peterkin laughed very loudly at the sight of him spinning out of control down the hill but Peter'kin's turn was coming. McDougall crept up behind him and pushed him gently from behind. Whoosh! Down he went and McDougall stood on the top and rocked with glee. But he rocked too much and before he knew what had happened he had overbalanced and was on his way down after the others. Of course we all landed in a pile at. the bottom and Ave all ; with the exception of Butinsky thought it a great joke. Butinsky is quite sure £ was to blame for the whole thing but he's starting to be friendly again now. Well 1 suppose I had better continue with the rest of the page.. Cheerio till next Aveek. P.T.W.

OUR STORY A STORY WITH A MORAL A young man who worked in a factor}' drawing a good salary and had been several times summcm.ed stood again before the Justice of Ihe Peace in whose court he had «<een made defendant, "I'll lose my job this time Judge," he said. When asked why he did not pay his debts the young man explained that he had unwisely bought things he could not afford to pay for, and had in other and unavoidable ways become indebted. He was paying what he could ea?h mouthy but it seemed impossible to pay living expenses and have enough left to keep creditors, from suing. The judge then asked him to agree, to a 10-day continuance in the matter. He war.ted to investigate the young man's, case and determine it there was some way the problem could be worked out without the young man losing liis job; for when the salary thc/e would be nothing to pay and the man's family seemed in danger of facing want. The judge next went to the company and arranged to stay the discharge order. He then offered, to handle the young maa : s money until he hail him out of debt ? which he felt sure he could manage in a year. The offer was gladly accepted. Then was worked out a method of allowing the young man a certain amount each month for necessities the remaining amount to be set aside each montn on his debts. r lhe judge went to the various and each promised to co-operate. In this way the company kept a useful worker: a young man was able to continue .supporting his family; and several firms and individuals were systematically and satisf J'actorily paid. The judge when asked, that the matter had taken a great deal of time. '"it was worth it. That boy simply had not learned to mAiiagc. He knows now that he can live well on much less than he thought he could. He has promised to keep out of debt ? and is putting money in a savings account."

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JOKE CORNER GOOD ADVICE Doctor: "If anything worries you ? count up to ten or .something. Don't let anything worry you. Just ignore it." Patient: "Thanks Doctor. I'll remember that when your bill comes!" THE WHEREWITHAL Judge: "Why did you steal that purse?" ' Prisoner: Well Your Honour I 9 9 was ill, and I thought the change would do me good!" SUM DOG Teacher: "Why do you call your dog Arithmetic?" Jack: "He's lame, so he puts three down anid carries one." NOT SO IGNORANT Explorer (pointing to aeroplane flying over native village): "Do you see the White Man's bird-with-an-engine?" Native: "Yes. And if I'm not mistaken it's a Zipfire twin,-engine monoplane with 200 h.p. sleeve valve, radial air cooled and a retractable undercarriage." NO SEATS LEFT Valet: "There is a man to see you Sir." Lord Hard-up: "Tell him to take, a seat." Valet: "lie has taken lour and he says that if you don't pav last year's instalments he will take the piano and the piano stool as well!" The above jokes were; sent in by Joan. Ducker. Congratulations Joan. You can collect a free picture ticket from the Beacon Office with my best compliments.' P.T.W. j i LAST WEEK'S COMPETITION By the Emperor ol' Persia's big toe I was certainly swamped with answers this Aveek. All of you seem to know your New Zealand towns very well indeed. As a the only thing I can do is to award the prizes to the sailors who sent in the , neatest entries. The tickets this week ; go to —• Edna Quigg ; Pauline Davies ; Tom Hill. Congratulations sailors. You can * collect your tickets from the Beacon ' Office. P.T.W. NEXT WEEK'S COMPETITION Johnny and Bill two small 1 boys aged .10. One day they decided J to go out for a ramble in the coun--1 try at the back of the town in : which they lived. Now the country : at the back of their town was. very L rough indeed and was hill of steep 7 i hills precipices ? and deep ravines. They had gone inland for several " miles when they came to a very ' deep gully. They did not want to go home just then, as it was only mid--1 day, yet there was no way round. 1 Suddenly Bill spied a log lying across * the gully from one side to the other, * "Ah!" he said, "f know how we can get across. We will go over that log. I will go first." So saying Bill went towards the log and started to crawl across it. 1 He was half way across when suddenly he slipped fell off the log 1 and was left hanging by his ha neb s with nothing but rocks several hundred feet b.elow. "Help! Help!" he called out. "I " am slipping." Now then here is the competi- ' tion. Jf you were Johnny ? wha " would vou do? Remember Johnm 1* 9 is onlv 11) years old and is n< 1 ' stronger than you are. There is onl\ s a narrow log across the gully am i Bill is hanging bj' his< hands in the e very middle and starting to slip. ■ 7 What would you do if you were s Johnny ? Tell me in not more that 75 words. P.T.W.