'It's a great pleasure to be here', said Clive Dunn who visited RNLI Headquarters to draw the sixteenth national lottery. 'Anything we do is done with great gratitude and affection for the lifeboat people'. Clive, who was appearing in pantomime in Bournemouth, was accompanied by Melanie Parr, Gill Offord and Victoria Blake who played Cinderella, Dandini and the Fairy respectively.

The draw took place on Friday January 29 and was supervised by Vice-Admiral Sir Peter Compston, a deputy chairman of the RNLI, and Anthony Oliver, who succeeded Cdr Ted Pritchard as Appeals Secretary at the beginning of 1982. Among those witnessing the draw were 12 boys from the local Oakmead School who later presented Clive with a cheque for £61.50, raised by a sponsored poetry reading at school. Over £33,000 was raised by the lottery, one of the highestamounts since the lotteries began. The prizewinners were: £l,000:Mrs R. Guy Phelps, Glastonbury, Somerset.

£500:Stella Keenan, Loughborough, Leicestershire.

£250:B. A. Williams, Colwyn Bay, Clwyd.

£50:D. Roberts, Grove Park, London; Captain P. J. Spencer, Bridford, Exeter; D. J. Chappell, Gillingham, Kent; Elin Gibbon. Church Strctton, Shropshire; Mrs S. Buxton. Orpington, Kent; Sandra Trevor, North Finchley, London; C. R. Thompson, Coventry, Warwickshire; Mr and Mrs W. G. Baynton, Crowthorne, Berkshire; R. J. Hunt, Woking, Surrey; J.

Hodge, Worcester.

The draw for the seventeenth national lottery will be on April 30, 1982..