THE RNLI'S twenty-first national lottery was drawn on April 29, appropriately enough by Frank Ide, coxswain of Poole lifeboat. People from all over the country bought lottery tickets to raise money so that lifeboatmen, like Frank, can be provided with the best equipment possible for their job of lifesaving; so many tickets were bought that over £42,000 was raised, the highest amount since the lotteries began. Frank and his wife Rose, who accompanied him, are regular and most welcome visitors to head office, so that there was plenty of good humoured banter to and from the gathered audience as the 13 tickets were drawn from the drum. Vice-Admiral Sir Peter Compston, a deputy chairman of the Institution, and Anthony Oliver, appeals secretary, supervised the draw, and the prize winners were: £1,000: Miss D. Hunter. Bath, Avon.

£500: N. F. Johnston, Pathhead, Midlothian.

£250: Mrs M. Fox, Ptympton, Devon.

£50: H. C. Rigmore, Basildon, Essex: A.

Hindley, Stockport, Cheshire; Mrs Jean Fisk, Uiceby, South Humberside; P. A. Saint, Middlesborough, Cleveland; Mrs Fran Bowler.

Chelmslord, Essex; Mrs P. J. Smith.

Orpington, Kent; W. A. Runyard, Wareham. Dorset; Christina MacLeod, Hull, North Humberside; G. L. Caulfield, Gunnislake, Cornwall; E. White, Kenilworth, Warwickshire.

The twenty-second lottery will be drawn at Poole on Friday July 29, 1983.

Sitting quietly in the audience was Iain Winslade, a Cub Scout from Tolpuddle, Dorset. Iain was there to represent all the Cub Scouts in the country who had taken part in the 'Stamps for Lifeboats' appeal launched in the 1983 Cub Scout Annual. The appeal was for Cubs to send in to Scout headquarters unused stamps which the staff could use; headquarters would then donate the total value of the stamps to the RNLI. Such was the response from the Cubs that Iain was able to hand over a cheque for £40 to Coxswain Ide..