THE "GOOD ENDEAVOUR" LEAGUE

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 87, 6 July 1945, Page 6

THE "GOOD ENDEAVOUR" LEAGUE

Wh;it. ho what ho ? ma hearties. Well T believe there avus quite a lot of excitement up at the Domain during the week-end. There were five J'oothall matches on altogether so f am toVI. What drew my attention to it* as a matter of fact was the terrific amount of cheering ■which 1, heard coming from that direction. it was so loud that [ could actually hear it over here on Whale Island, Naturally, Joeing interested in such I decided to have a look at Avliat was going on 5 so taking my gold mounted } chromium plated expanding in all direct tions, jewelled in ten holes telescope I whistled up Butinsky, Peter'kin and McDougall and .set off for the top of the hill (you know, the one you can see from the mainland). We reached tlie top ( anj>l I immediately withdrew my brass-mount-ed rolled-gold (?dl the gold rolled out) _ non-expanding non-jewelled, tripod from my 'hip pocket and mounting the trained it in. the direction of the Domain. (I must tell you about my tripod some time. It. used to have three but now it only has one and a half). Anyway, I made myself comfortable ai\d gently lowered m5 r eye toj the sponge-rubber eye-piece. Then I staggered back amazed; The sight fairly rocked me. What should I see but two teams of girls in football togs, all playing football as hard a.s they could go. I thought the telescope must have been having a joke with me j but no j when I bent forward uncertainly for a second peep I saw the same thing again. Then suddenly it dawned on me. Of course I had read in the Beacon just a few days before that there was to be a girls match too. Ah! That explained everything. So I sat self down and started to en» joy myself. Yes sailors. It was certainly some game. All the people watching seemed to think so as every now an,d then I would hear great hurts of chceering come rolling across the occan. Anyway, I thoroughly enjoyed it ? and by the way some of you sailors were acting (yes, 1 saw some of you there) you seemed to be too. Well I suppose I had better continue writing the rest of the page. I had a chat with the Editor the other da}*, about the shortness of the column last week, and he explained that he had been saving the full two columns of space for me but that he had by mistake put! half a column of it in his pocket and taken it home. OJ' course when the rest of the men iSi tfli'e newspaper office wanted to know where it was he couldn't find it ? and so they had to put in a new piece of space which happened to be fillexl up with an advertisement. So that's the whole story, and now I must say cheerio for this week. P.T.W. CONTRIBUTIONS You ail seem To have cottoned on to the idea of my giving points for contributions very well. I received quite a number this wek and the West will be printed as space permits. Bv the wav ,don't forget to mark the entries either 'Original.' (meaning you have made it up yourself out of your own head) or 'Copied.' I have a pretty good idea of just how clever you sailors are so please don't, tell any libs and mark your entries 'Original' when ihey are really copied from somewhere else. If the entry is a good one you will get just as many points. P.T.W. MEMBERSHIP One of the contributions, I received this week was from Colin Hammond. It was a good contribution Colin, but looking up in my little book, I don't think you are a member of the

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page. However ? we will be very glad to sign you oil, as a member of the crew and then you will be able to enter lor all the competitions and seiul in as many things as you like. All you have to do is send along 3,d in stamps and I will .send you a certificate. In the meantime I am holding your contributions here and -when you join up officially they will be eligible for printing. P.T.W. STRANGE ENTRY Well I certainly received a strange entry for this week's, competition from Barbara Breckon. 1 don't know whether you got mixed up or what Barbara but you posted me a map of New Zealand. I have posted it back to you as I think you might want it. (By the way, I might say that the map was very well done. You must be quite an artisti \o be able to do work of that standard, and I am only sorry that there is no way of printing such things in the column). P.T.W. Why is a dog's tail like the heart of* a tree? —Because it is the farthest from the bark. If you raise wheat in dry weather what do you raise in rainy weather? —An umbrella. Do you know why onions and potatoes will not grow in the same row? —Because the onions get in the potato's eyes. 'hat is it that runs upstairs without a sound?— The carpet. did. the garden fence?---Be-cause it saw the. window box. LAST WEEK'S COMPETITION What ho I knew that competition was not too hard for you. 1 received a whole host of entries this week, but most of you seemed to have the same idea. Anyway ft was a good idea and so I am awarding four tickets. These go to Sue Goodwin Valmai Griffith Joan Powley June Gardner. Congratulations shipmates. I have only printed two of the answers below as the others were very much the same. P.T.W. i [ would crawl along the log and bv using mv shirt and belt I would o i, do my best to tie him to the log ? if possible, then crawl back along the log and obtain help from the nearest town. June; Gardner. I would climb along the log to where he ha,d slipped and. try and pull him up. If I could not pull him up on the log I would try and get on a big rock so that I could get more grip on him. Alter I had pulled him up Ave would go home and we would never go near that, place again. (I hope that it is 0.K.) Joan Powley,. ([ .don't quite see where the rock comes in Joan, but still it is a good answer and deserves a ticket. IVT.W NEXT WEEK'S COMPETITION Now T have a competition I hat will make you look at your alias, f want you to study a map of New Zealand and write down al" the capes you can find. There a few of them (such as Cape Koulwind and Cape etc.) and I think Ihcy will keep you busy for some time. find all you can, write them down in a list and send them in to me e/o Beacon Office. The ones who find the most capes and send in the neatest entry will win tickets. P.T.W.