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A great prize for any sportsman is coming up in a raffle to be run in conjunction with the Spillane Trophy Rugby Tournament being held here over Easter. Organiser Graham Millier touches wood for luck as he shows off the handsome prize, a beautiful cabinet (made by Mr E. White of Christies) which contains (through the courtesy of All Black Ian Kirkpatrick) a rugby ball autographed by the 1974 All Blacks and the Irish Internationals!

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Paparua Prison Second Officer, Mr W. T. Houkamau, has been awarded a Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Fellowship to study penal policies in America, Canada and Australia. He has been in the prison service since August, 1968, when he joined the staff at Mount Eden Prison. He was transferred to the maximum security prison at Paremoremo at the end of 1968 and then promoted to Paparua Prison as third officer in 1971, being promoted again to the position of second officer in 1973. Mr Houkamau was born in Hicks Bay and was a police constable in Gisborne for the two years prior to September, 1965.

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A large number of members from the Senior Citizens' Association took off on a trip to Rotorua recently. The five-day trip included stops at Opotiki and Whakatane. Everyone stayed at the Prince's Gate Hotel which is real handy to "the waters," the gardens and the many other things to see in Rotorua.