Games side effect?

Statistics released in Noumea recently have brought to light an unsuspected benefit from the South Pacific Games of last December.

There were about 20 fewer cases of drunkenness before the courts last year than in 1965, and December had the least number for any month of the year.

The low December figure is put to the credit of the Games.

But it is not known whether the local boozers were more interested in the Games than quaffing the cup that cheers, or whether the local constabulary was too busy handling traffic snarls to catch up with the boozers. —Fred Dunn.