School Friend Annual #1953

The School Friend Annual 1953 is an anthology containing multiple stories. One story follows Jean, who participates in a race and stays at a hotel in Hawkwood, where she overhears criminals plotting to steal a fortune during the race and must work to thwart their plans. Another story features Binnie and the Happy Days pirate crew, who discover that regatta prizes have been stolen; Binnie's quick thinking and a careless mistake by a thief lead to the prizes being recovered and Binnie being honored as a guest at the prize-giving ceremony. A third story involves characters named Jill and M'lani encountering a witch doctor's plot on a tropical island; after Jill is released, Aloma (the witch doctor's daughter) says goodbye to her friends and departs by canoe, with M'lani keeping a secret about having braved sea-eagles to obtain proof of the witch doctor's treachery.