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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 January 1961Vol. XXXI, No. 6

Only 56 Varieties

p. 107 · Read in the full issue

Are Left

n May, 1958, a member of stralia’s Antarctic Expedition sed 57 bottles into the sea at cquarie Island. He did it as publicity gimmick for the th anniversary of Sydney’s department store, David tes Ltd., and for the food lessors, H. J. Heinz Pty. Ltd. :h bottle contained a voucher £lOO worth of goods. n wo and a half years and 10 miles later, one of the ties has been picked up by a iceman called Arnoldo Garrido, of Puerta tales, Chile. He has sent the icher to BJ’s, Sydney, and imed the goods—or the cash lieu thereof “which would be n more acceptable”, lowever, Garrido is to get stralian goods, without the ion as soon as possible. One idition of claiming the reward s that a label from a tin of inz soup should be enclosed.

Ve presume that Messrs, inz and their 57 varieties have letrated even as far as Puerta tales, and that Garrido was e to fulfil this part of the itract. >o far there have been no ims in respect of the other bottles; but the offer stays >n until May, 1963 (five years all) so there is still a chance someone along that line of ft.