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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 February 1961Vol. XXXI, No. 7

Got To He In It

p. 47 · Read in the full issue

To Win It

ike Asian flu, the newspaper ipetition is likely to break at any time in epidemic m. Right nou> Sydney readers the four dailies may win ithing from a modest £5,000 i more satisfying £55,000 for ing TV shows or filling in le simple-seeming crossword zle.

'reasurewords, the brainchild newspaper opponents John rfax & Sons Pty. Ltd. and isolidated Press (an unholy on if you like), offers £55,000 I/-, a coupon and the solu i to a set of X-word puzzles. to be outdone, the inde dent “Mirror” offers £30,000 the correct solution to rorwords. he “Sun” has had a £5,000 ipetition about something or er, and the “Daily Tele ph” has a £lO,OOO “Telechoice” test. A list of 30 TV shows ffered and the customer has r iame the top 10 in order of ularity. nly four of the shows are from ABC National station, the from the two commercial ions in which the news ers have heavy investments. • would be quite interesting, r efore, and a horrid waste of 000, if one of the ABC shows le top of the poll. (Not that likely, popular taste being it it is). he order of the popularity will be worked out by iac, Sydney University’s ironic computer. My, my, wonders of this scientific