THE "GOOD ENDEAVOUR" LEAGUE

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 33, 4 October 1946, Page 6

THE "GOOD ENDEAVOUR" LEAGUE

F PETER THE WHALER - (/WHALE JSIAND

What ho, whfit ho, ma hearties. Well, how are you all this week? I haven’t written to you for a fortnight now, but I’m afraid it couldn’t be helped; we had a slight accident last week. Usually the postman calls in his launch during the week, picks up my column and sends it in to the Beacon Office, but for some reason he didn’t call last week. Thursday came, and I began to get very worried about, so in the end I decided to take it across to the. mainland and deliver it myself. The thhee pets, of course, all wanted to come too; so we launched Monty, the .dinghy, and set off. We were about half way across when a squall came up. Butinsky promptly started to be seasick, and Butch sat on the gun’l (the side of the boat) and began shouting orders. Peterkin was the only one who was really enjoying himself, and he was hanging over the side by one flipper getting soaked with sea spray. Suddenly a huge wave rolled up and the next minute over we went. We all came up a few minutes later, and clung to Monty, which was floating upside down. Peterkin thought it a great joke, Butinsky was shivering all over, and Butch was saying all sorts of things to me, and about me, declaring that it was all my fault. We spent three hours hanging on to our upturned boat before the current finally took us. near enough to Whale Island to swim to the shore. Unfortunately, we could not get Monty close enough to rescue it too, and before I had time to get a line and swim back and make it fast, it had drifted further out to sea. But never mind, I can always build another, and I think we all had a lucky escape. Cheerio for this week. P.T.W.

LAST WEEK’S COMPETITION COMPETITION IDEAS Congratulations sailors, congratulations, You certainly sent me in come excellent ideas for competitions in response to the last competition. Most of them will be used in the page in the weeks to come. Ticket winners are:— Pat Winters lan Breward Joycelyn Wylde. Points Points towards a free ticket go to Henry Ross (3). NEXT WEEK’S COMPETITION DRAW WHALE ISLAND Here’s a competition which Stewardess Pat Winters sent in. What you have to do is to draw the picture of Whale Island and the lettering round it, which you see at the top of this column. Draw it twice as big as it appears in the paper. Righto sailors, let’s see how many artists we-have in the crew. (And by the way you might be able to make Whale Island look a little more like Whale Island. I’ve always thought it was out of proportion somewhere, but I’ve never been able to see just where.) P.T.W.

FOREST & BIRD MAGAZINES I have recently had a number of requests for Forest and Bird Magazines. If you would like to continue receiving the Forest and Bird Magazines sailors, forward your name and address together with a postal note for 2/6, and I will see that it reaches the right place. P.T.W. MY MAIL BOX Joycelyn Wylde: I am afraid that I cannot print drawings in the column yet Joycelyn. The printers have to make what is known as a ‘stereo’ from which to print the drawing, and as it is a long job, and they have very little time, I am afraid they simply cannot manage it. You may, however, send in drawings, and if they are good, you will receive points for them. Regarding the story which you suggest, I would certainly send it in, but send in both parts together, so that I can see just how long it is. I may have to print it in three parts or even more. The subjects which you suggest sound very interesting, and should gain you a number of points. Let’s have them. P.T.W. -

FOR YOUNG READERS ONLY ''lAboard for the Goodwill Cruise

RIDDLES What bird will cut a lawn?—A moa of.course. If Mississippi bought Missouri a New Jersey what would Delaware? —Alaska. What fish is found in every henhouse?—A perch. What cup is. impossible to drink from?—A buttercup; When is a donkey spelled with one letter?—When its U (you). What bird has its eyes the closest together?—The smallest one. Why are cooks cruel?—Because they beat eggs and whip cream. What poet do we eat for breakfast?—Bacon. (Four points to Joycelyn Wylde for these riddles. P.T.W. ) .

BEETLE LIGHTS A small tropical beetle about one .and one-half finches long, carries two small light globes, one on each side of its throat, that can be illuminated, the light lasting about five minutes at a time. Natives keep several of them in small wicker cages about the house, and encourage them to light' up by tipping or shaking the cages.