They’ve Won

Heaven Help

Them!

They’ve Won an Island

r T'HE correspondent in August PIM (p. 82) who just couldn't wait to see who was going to win the limerick competition and Ava Ava Island (alias Yawalo) off the Lautoka coast, Fiji, can relax.

The island and its fixings—kindly arranged by the Fiji Visitors' Bureau — have gone to a Mr. and Mrs. Kent Shelby of Long Beach, California— and they can scarcely wait, either. As soon as they get their affairs tied-off, they'll be there, they say, by air, with their daughter Teddy, 15 months.

To win Ava Ava—it was renamed (shades of old Cakobau) after the film star—they had to supply the last line of a limerick. Theirs was one of 50,000 entries. Here it is: "On an island with nothing else but A coconut tree and a hut.

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Rebut."

Shelby, who is 23, is a promotion writer for Douglas Aircraft and he wants to write a book. His wife, 21, likes to walk barefoot in the sand.

They say they will live on the island, in a Fijian "bure", until Teddy is school-age.

FOOTNOTE: If these kids want to take their trip and dabble their feet in the tropical seas around Fiji for a couple of weeks, that's OK. But if they seriously intend throwing up security for it, it is about time some one told them the facts of life in a native hut on a tropical island. Let's hope that the promoters of this fabulous piece of nonsense know what they are doing.