£5,900 to Spend

[?]evelei Still Has £5,900 to Spend

the Solomon Islander i who earlier this year won £6,000 in the NSW State lottery, has it the lottery bug.

He is a greaser in the Burns Philp ip Muliama. He buys a ticket in rdney at the end of each 28 days’ und trip.

Revelei has spent less than £lOO his original win; major purchases far being a gramaphone, £lO )rth of cowboy records, a suit of )thes and a petrol iron. He said cently he would take a two Dnths’ holiday when his contract th Burns Philp expires in nuary, 1955. During that time he )uld establish his father in a ide store on Guadalcanal, and en rejoin his ship—impatient, no übt, to reach Sydney and the ;tery office again. (He may even do better next time NSW is now running a super 'tery with £30,000 for first prize, d tickets £l.)

II Mr. G. Arthur, BA, who retired from the Fiji Department of Education last year, returned to the Colony recently to take up an appointment with another Gov ernment department. tl Major C. C. Jordan, RNZAC, has been appointed Chief of Staff of the Fiji Military Forces. For the past two years Major Jordan has been GSG2 at Northern Military District Headquarters, Auckland.

H Colonel Buscombe a trader on the Sepik River, New Guinea, recently visited Brisbane. He interested a newspaper columnist with tales of the crocodile hunting natives on the Sepik. Apparently some of the natives earn up to £5 a day. They are not running round in big cars yet, says the Colonel, but the time will come when they will. (Always providing, of course, there is ever anywhere on the Sepik to run them —which PIM doubts).

Recent TEAL travellers to New Zealand included (left to right): Mr.

L. Luapo from W.

Samoa. Mr. Hollis Toise from the Ellice Is. Mr. Sam Starr of Niue.

Photos by TEAL.