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First Prize for this month goes to Mr R. Hepburn, of the locomotive staff, N.Z.R., Gisborne, for his picture (above) of the sun rising at East Cape, Neir Zealand's most easterly point, roughly 80 miles north of Gisborne as the crov flies, where the sun shines first each day. Actually the first land in Neir Zealand to catch the sun's rays is the top of Mount Hikurangi, some miles inland from the cape.

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Miss Betty Dyke, 162 Clifford Street, sends in this photograph of her cat, "Smoky", having her daily ice cream.

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This snap from Mrs E. McIntyre, Manutuke, shows her daughter, Mrs Grace Drake, of Blenheim, aboard a donkey during a recent holiday at the McIntyre home.

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Lake Waikaremoana is the subject of this picture sent in by Miss Joyce Deal, of 2 13 Clifford Street, Gisborne. It does justice to one of the most beautiful scenic spots in the North Island.

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This looks like superman on the job, holding up a tree trunk with one finger. Taken at Te Wera, near Matawai, during a pig hunting expedition. It is explained by one of nature's tricks. Years ago a fire burnt away the base of the tree, leaving it suspended from a nearby tree in the branches of which it iras entangled. Sent in by Miss Joan Frith, Gisborne.

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Little Christine Foss, 2½ years of age, poses by a 5ft3in scavenger shark found tangled in a set line near Tatapouri Beach by her father, Mr Ivan Foss, during the Xmas holidays. Sent in by Mr Foss, 19 Scott St.