Winners express surprise with prizes

COLIN Garaba from Morobe is one of the four lucky winners for The National masthead competition.
Garaba, who works as a security officer with Curtain Brothers, won last week’s draw.
He lives with his wife at Don Bosco Technical School at Gabutu in Port Moresby.
Garaba said that it was his first time to try the competition and he was surprised that he won.
“For the first time, I bought the newspapers from Monday to Friday last week and decided to enter the competition so I dropped the mastheads off at The National office,” he said. “I was surprised that they called me and said I had won last week’s draw,” he added.
Garaba told The National that since he was a regular buyer of the paper it was good to win K250.
Ronnie Muepe, from Northern, had his entry drawn and he picked up his K250 prize yesterday.
Muepe lives at Erima, Wildlife.
He finished school last year and is still looking for a job.
Muepe said he had entered the competition once and was pleasantly surprised with having won a prize. “I had no idea that the winners’ names came out on Tuesday’s paper. A friend called me and told me that my name was in the paper,” he said.
“I thought my friend was lying at first but I came to the office and they said I had won, which was good.”
Eleven-year-old Israel Sapa Lawing, who is a student at Carr Memorial Primary School in Waigani, was the other winner.
He said he would use the money to pay for a visit to the dentist.