THE "GOOD ENDEAVOUR" LEAGUE

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 08, Issue 89, 13 July 1945, Page 6

THE "GOOD ENDEAVOUR" LEAGUE

* What ho } what ho > ma hearties, j I should say that. the rain has finished and ai>e due lor another i stretch of frosty Aveather. I do not like cold weather so I think I will ; have, to take a trip to Tndia or somc.- ( where where it's nice and warm most of the time. I remember the last time I was in India, it was in the middle of summer and j?osh it ' 9 was certainly hot. 1 walked round the street all day in a pair of swimming togs ? and then I perspired sol much that person after person asked me how I enjoyed my swim. L was so wet with perspiration /that they thought I had just been for a swim in the Ganges. The Ganges is a holy river you know. People regard it as a God and so it is in a way, for it suddenly stopped flowing, millions and millions of people would klie for they would have no water for their crops or anything, and as you know, people e&nnot live without water. The Indians (not the Red Indians who live in America—you must not get the two mixed up) who live by the Ganges use it for everything. They wash in it wash their clothes in it let the cows stand in it, swim in it; and also drink it. Now you might wonder why they do not catch disease from it through drinking it but they don't. Of course they put it down to the fact that, the water js holy but scientists say that it is because the river flows over huge stretches of sand and the water 9 9 in these places, is shallow enough to filter through the sand. Thus the sand takes out all the germs. Well, to get back to Whale Island. Of course although it is cold just now, we are over the shortest day, and may look forward to summer again in a few months and then it will be. nice and warm once more f and we will be able to go swimmijig jn the hot sun. Yes < there is certainly no time like summer: time. But 1 must get on with the rest of the page, now so cheerio for this week. P.T.W.