PRIZEWINNERS in the eighth RNLI national lottery, which raised nearly £22,500, were drawn at Poole headquarters on Wednesday April 30 by John Piper. Well known as a broadcaster on Radio Solent, John Piper has been appointed as regional controller of the IBA's recently established Two Counties Radio station which will start broadcasting from Bournemouth in the autumn.

The draw was supervised by Vice- Admiral Sir Peter Compston, chairman of the Fund Raising Committee, Rear Admiral W. J. Graham, director of theInstitution, and Cdr E. F. Pritchard, appeals secretary, and among the spectators was Sir Alec Rose who had come to make the draw for the Shoreline BMW car competition. The winners were: £1,000: D. Lissaman, Coventry, Warwickshire.

£500: G. Hughes, West Lulworth, Dorset.

£250: D. Crook, Bognor Regis, West Sussex.

£25: Miss Victoria Annal, Aberdeen; Mrs E. J. M. Habershon, Maidenhead, Berkshire; Mrs A. J.

Powell, Oxford; Miss E. Bale, Leicester; Miss K. Thorpe, Sheffield; S. J.

Wootten, Birmingham; M. Waxman, London; D. M. Raven, West Wickham, Kent; L. Claus, Ingatestone, Essex; J.

Hind. Redcar, Cleveland.

The ninth lottery will be drawn on July 31..