THE "GOOD ENDEAVOUR" LEAGUE

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 9, 14 September 1945, Page 6

THE "GOOD ENDEAVOUR" LEAGUE

I'Aboard for the Goodwill Cruise =r PETER THE WHALER Of WHALE .ISLAND |

FOR YOUNG READERS ONLY I

What ho_ Avhat. ho ? ma hearties. Wcll ? the weather we've been having is certainly getting summery. Soon, it won't be long before you are all going swimming at Ohope. Of course the time of the year doesn't makeany difference to me as . I usually go for an early dip every morning while the pet.s are still snoring away in bed s but then an old salt like me doesn't notice cold water so much. As f was saying last week when T ay as telling you about my adven-t tures in the Antarctic, we returned to our boat to find it literally swarming with seals. Barnacle Bill realised that' it was a great opportunity to catch' any amount and. skin them to make a seal-skin coat for his great aunt in New York so telling us to be very he sat down to think about what he should do first, Then he hit on a brilliant scheme. Taking from the sledge the last piece of salt meat we had he crept'up very close to the boat ? and deftly tossed it into the open hold. Immediately everj* seal within cooec had dived in after it ? and with a triumphant chortlfj Barnacle Bill dashed forward and slapped the hatch down, battening it securely. Well I will have to leave the story at this point for this Week, More later for now I must proceed w r ith the rest of the column. Cheerio for now P.T.W.

PALMERSTON NORTH CORNER What ho there Palmerston North folk. I was glad to hear l'rom you again after the holidays. Doubtless you all enjoyed yourselves very much. The. cake pictures were very well Ivan and John, and I have pasted them up on my wall with the others. The winner of the pro-* verb competition was Nan Elwood who found 82. Well done Nan. All the other entries were good too particularly Annette Brunt's. Your'swas very neat Annette. Your certificate has been sent out Valerie. P.T.W.

LATE ENTRIES Strike me pink when will you learn that your entries must be in by mid-day on Wednesday ? The two best entries to last week's competition arrived the next day (Thursday) after I had sent the page to the printer to be printed. One sailor found GS proverbs but her letter arrived too late 5 and so missed out. Try and get 'your entries in to time sailors, otherwise |they are no good } and I just hate to see all these excellent answers going to waste. P.T.W.

UNDER* THE APPLE TREE Under the apple tree I lie Dreaming of the summer And the birds go fluttering by, Flying low flying high. Under the apple tree I lie dazing at the slimmer sky' And the trees sway about And then the birds begin to shout. Now it's time to go to bed. And think of the day I've spent And when the sun begins to rise I will think of the summer's sky. —Original. (Four points go to Marjorie Shcat for this original piece of poetrv. P.T.W.)

HOW-MANY APPLES How many apples were eaten by Adam and Eve ? We know that: Eve ate one, that Adam 8142, please Evc ? and she please Adam: total 89 354. Then again Eve herself and Adam 8 ) himself total 8 938.484. Grand total 9. 027 BGI. (Two points to Reggie Watarawi for this competition. P.T.W.)

MY MAIL BOX

Dear Peter the Whaler Please may I join the Good Endeavour League ? I enclose 'M as subscription. Yours truly Julia Moricc. (Step aboard Julia, Always glad to have another sailor aboard. I hope you will find the competitions enjoyable. Your certificate has been posted- P.T.W.) LAST WEEK'S COMPETITION Barnacles in the bilges -what a pile of jokes I received. Long ones short ones ? funny ones, very funny and some so good that I sat and chuckled over them half the night, sailors ? I was more than pleased with the entries I received for last week's joke competition. Below are. printed the wanning ones. Sailors who sent them in can collect their free picture tickets from the Beacon Office with my best compliments. i 1 j Sherlock Holmes: Ah Watson, I 9 see you have on your winter underwear. Watson: Marvellous Holmes marvellous. How did you deduce that? Sherlock Holmes: Well you have merely forgotten to put on your pants! John Ross,

Instructor (at military college): "Now Mr Spiifkin ? will you give me a definition of strategy?" New Subaltern: "Well, I can give you an example. It's strategy when you don't won't tli<? enemy to know you're out of ammunition to keep on firing at him. That heats him what?" , ' Valmai Griffith. Wife (at 2 a.m.): "I heard a mouse squeak." Husband (sleepily): "All right. What am I supposed to do? Oil it?" Reggie Watarawi. There was once an Irishman and a who Avere walking to Aberdeen, and they came to a notice board, which read: Two miles to Aberdeen. If you can't read this in* quire at the Baker's. When they got to the hotel the Scotchman woke up and started laughing in the night and the Irishman said: "What's the matter." The Scotchman said: "I've got it the Baker might be oot!" Doreen Barton.

NEXT WEEK'S COMPETITION Now here's a new 'kind of competition. which I don't think we have had before. You've all heard of the fairy tales Avhere the Fairy Queen tells the prince or princess that thej T may have three wishes granted. If you were told you could have three wishes what would you wish for? Righto now. Set your brains to work and send me in vour J not forgetting to make sure they arrive by raid-day 011 Wednesday, P. T.W.