THE "GOOD ENDEAVOUR" LEAGUE

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 18, 30 August 1946, Page 6

THE "GOOD ENDEAVOUR" LEAGUE

X PETER THE WHALER _ Qff WHALE .ISLAND

What ho, what ho, ma hearties. Well here lam on deck again. I suppose you’re wondering what happened to me last week. A terrible epidemic of flu has just swept Whale Island (the same, I believe, that swept the mainland) and Butinsky, Peterkin and Butch and I have all spent the past week in bed. It was lucky that I happened to have plenty of tinned food and milk on hand, because we were all too ill to get out and cook any. Butch is sure that he was twice as sick as all the rest of us put together, and he kept on telling us so all the time. In fact I’m sure that his constant talking made we three others much worse than we would have been. However we are all on our feet again, and all very healthy, with the exception of Butch who claims that he must rest in the sun for at least a week before he will be really better. Right now he is squatting out there in a deckchair ordering Butinsky and Peterkin round, but I don’t know how long they’ll put up with it. Well, I must continue with the rest of the column. Cheerio till next week. P.T.W.

NEXT WEEK’S COMPETITION Now here’s a competition that a sea-going crew like that aboard the Good Endeavour should be really good at. What I want you to do is to write down the names of all the Sea Shanties you can think of. Send 'them in to me c/o Beacon Office, and free picture tickets will go to those who find the most. Now come on sailors, let’s find out who are the ‘real old salts.’ P.T.W.

MY MAIL BOX Dear P.T.W., Please may I join the Endeavour League. I am aged ten and I am in Standard Four at school. I enclose threepence in stamps. Yours sincerely, Alex Peebles. (Step aboard Alex, we’re right glad to have you with us. Your certificate has already been posted. P.T.W.) Joycelyn Wylde: The tickets can be used for the Regent or Grand Theatres in Whakatane, Joycelyn. LAST WEEK’S COMPETITION

Well well, I caught all of you out with last week’s competition, although I will admit that there were several little catches in the Quiz to trip the unwary. I didn’t, however, expect to catch you all. I think it is the first time on record that I have done so, and that is why I made the competition stiffer than usual. This week’s prize winners are:—

Colleen Boon Pauline Davies 1 Joycelyn Wyicle Each of the above sailors had eight of the questions answered correctly. Following are the correct answers:— 1. A shark does not have warm blood. Do not confuse it with a whale. 2. The Queen Mary was not sunk during the war—she is still afloat. 3. Correct, there are 48 States in the United States. 4. This is certainly not a five-sid-ed figure. It is a man who has more than one wife. 5. Yes, ‘Fore’ is amongst the many expressions heard on a golf course, it is used to warn players in front. 6. A Queen Bee can sting although as a rule she never does, unless it is to kill another queen in the same hive. 7. The capital of Westland is not Greymouth. It is Hokitika. 8. Walnuts do not grow on small bushes set against walls. They grow on trees.

9. The earth is not fiat, nor is it perfectly round. It is round, but slightly flattened at the poles. 10. A harpoon is a type of spear used in the hunting of whales.

SPECIAL PRIZES I received two late entries to the word building competition, but they were so good that this week [ am making a special exception and awarding the sailors who sent them, free tickets. They are Nola Quigg who made 782 words out of Con:tantinople, and Edna Quigg who nade 733.

FOR YOUNG READERS ONLY

[Aboard for the Goodwill Cruise

“WIT”

Congratulations sailors., you may collect your tickets from the Beacon Office with my best compliments.

RIDDLES What tune does a miser like best? —A fortune. If one policeman ate two apples, what number would he be? —One ate two (182). When is a boy like a bird?— When he is skylarking. How many insects would take to make a landlord?—Ten ants (tenants). How is it that six. men under one umbrella did not get wet?—lt didn’t rain. Why is a fruit cake like the sea? —Because it is full of currents. 7. What has a tongue but cannot speak?—A shoe. Copied. Joycelyn Wylde. (Three points go to you for these riddles Joycelyn. P.T.W.)

Some folks cannot or will not see, That wit often solves the mystery Of how to live contentedly, By allowing humour to take the floor, And discount things that vex and bore; Wit will bid carping care begone, And by hook or crook will carry on, Greeting trouble with a smile That helps a lame dog o’er the stile; From Eden on to Noah’s Ark, Wit seeks and finds cause for a lark, Tragic, comic, sentimental, Arctic, torrid, occidental, From the monocle in Piccadilly, To the sundowners battered billy, In riddle, joke or timely pun, Wit’s always out to make some fun; Jokes that caused the knightly laughter, To soar to the Baron’s oaken rafter, And brightened the Peasant’s humble cot, While chestnuts popped on the hearthstone hot, Have preserved through the passing years, Their fresh springs of laughter’s happy tears, Life without wit would be dull and drab, As an obscure date on a granite slab. . li. SERGANT.