THE “GOOD ENDEAVOUR" LEAGUE.

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 92, 28 June 1946, Page 6

THE “GOOD ENDEAVOUR" LEAGUE.

What ho, what ho, ma hearties. Well, Friday’s come round again, and for once I seem to have passed an uneventful week, although the same can not be said for Butch. As you will probably remember, last week I told you how I came back from the Chatham Islands by registered post, but now I come to think of it, I clean forgot to mention how Butch fared. Unfortunately, he suffered even worse than I. When the suggestion was made by the Captain of the old barque ‘Fallingapart’ that I should be sent back by post, everyone became so excited about the whole thing, and getting me well wrapped up, addressed and stamped, etc., that -we all forgot about Butch, who had wandered away to the village pond in search of tadpoles. He was rather late getting back, and you can imagine how furious he was when he found I had gone. He certainly, from what I can gather, told the others what he thought of them. Anyway, to console him, they decided to wrap him up too, and send him home the same way as I. Now it happened that in the rush and hurry, they forgot to put an address on him, and the result was that he was posted but nobody outside the Chatham Islands knew where he was supposed to go. We travelled on the same plane, (unbeknown to one another) but once we reached Auckland, we parted company. I was forwarded on to Whale Island, and Butch was sent to the dead letter office in Wellington. (The dead letter office, sailors, is the place where letters posted without addresses go until they can be returned to the sender. If the person to whom a letter is posted has moved somewhere else, and no one knows where, then that letter also is sent to the dead letter office to be posted back to the sender). Butch spent four days lying at the bottom of a basketful of parcels and newspapers, and when they finally undid him to see where to post him, they received such a shock that they albhad to take the afternoon off to recover. When they came back the next day, Butch said some very nasty things to them, so they very hastily did him up again, tied him tip Well with string, and sent him home. When he arrived, he seemed to think it was all my fault, and told me that he wasn’t ever going to speak to me again. It will be rather, a relief in a way if he doesn’t, but we’ll see. ' "Cheerio for this week. P.T.W.

JOKES City Girl: What lovely coats those cows have! \ Farmer: They’re Jerseys. City Girls: Oh goodness! I thought it was their skin!

Q: How would you make a Venetian blind? A: Punch him in the eye! (One point each to Patricia Wells and Jack Shaw for these jokes. P-T.W;) Was there any shade in the desert? . Yes, but I couldn’t get in it. Why not? Have you ever tried to sit in your own shadow? Why are you late this morning, McNab? I squeezed the tooth paste too hard and it took me half an hour to get it back in the tube. Slim: Got a minute to spare? Jim: Sure. Slim: Tell me all you know. He: I’ve got a wonderful family tree. She: You’re the sap, I suppose. Policeman: Excuse me, Miss, but are you the owner of this Rolls Royce car? Lady: No, but thanks awfully for asking me.

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Aboard for the Goodwill Cruise

asT PETER THE WHALER of WHALE JSLAND

LAST WEEK’S COMPETITION

A QU|Z 9 Ho-ho-ho, I_ caught most of you out again with last week’s quiz. Do you know sailors, that I received only two totally correct entries out of approximately thirty, and one of the two correct had no name on it. The questions were not actually hard, (although they were a wee bit stiffer than last time) but contained more ‘catches’. This week’s tickets (I have awarded four, for those correct and neatest most nearly correct) go to:—

John Shaw Patricia Wells Olive Hunter Barrie McCuish. Congratulations sailors. The correct answers are printed below. 1. Berlin. 2. 10,080. 3. 1,004,632. 4. 10. 5. Art treasures (pictures, paintings etc.). 6. 100. 7. 1945. 8. ‘ what you can do today’. 9. 14. 10. Time to have your watch fixed! NEXT WEEKS COMPETITION Next week’s competition is a type of quiz, but it is not quite the same as the two you have already had. Keelhaul me sailors, I’ve never struck a crew so keen on quizes as you people all seem to be, but if it’s quizes you want, then I suppose I’ll have to do my best to oblige. This time it’s a ‘True’ or ‘False’ quiz. Below are printed ten statements, which are either true or false. All you have to do is to say what each one is. Send in your, answer to P.T.W. c/o Beacon Office, and four free picture tickets will be awarded as prizes. ‘True’ or ‘False’ ? 1. The Pacific Ocean is the largest in the world, 2. Fish close their eyes when they sleep. 3. There are still sailing ships afloat. 4. Coconuts grow on bushes. 5. There are no Red Indians left in America. 6. The higher you go, the hotter it gets. 7. There are 366 days in a Leap year. 8. When mice grow up they become rats. 9. A Kiwi cannot fly. 10. A desert is very hot in the £lay, and very cold at night.