Five Sydney Friends Will Share £40,000

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 109, 10 May 1941, Page 6 (Supplement)

Five Sydney Friends Will Share £40,000

Joy in one home and tragedy in another were the read*,; last week-end to news of sadden riches for six persons in h, • I. • • *" 11 Australian cities. . In Sydney a "Sunday Sun" reporter and photographer <3— through blinding rain to Taylor Bay to inform Mrs. J r Vaughan. of Blakesley Street, Chatswood. that her syndicate C E won £40.000 in a Queensland investment. In Bundaberg, Queensland, a prize winner in the £-■ I investment collapsed and died when he was told by telephon* ~ t his srood fortune.

""They are keen on enfhr?an<":. :: we can cot the necssmachir.es. they -.-•■;'.': soon be y z their -it v'.-assist Australia's 3 Mr. is an encr=- * the star: of Messrs. C. C. Wafcj He said: "I just can't get -j?-•• being rich ?•- suddenly." Mr. Leyshon is 'a Chasw/ craper but savs he won't befcbusiness much longer. tcodi; p.an; for the future are notfe^ most of his time to imprtrii --_• eosy week-end home at Tayajfcl where the friends spend nearij^r A. J. Murphy. 6-5. newsapfir ticket agent, of Bundaberg, colk~ and died when talking to Brst over the long-distance tetepbos? nigh*. He had just been "toldhe had sold a third prize tick; £0000. when he collapsed. He had a share in the ticket Though doctors and amfci: men worked on him for a kmgts he failed to respond. Mr. Miwas a prominent business andsr man in Bundaberg. and was as f ated with Mr. Eric Maidens, a t known northern tennis player. I Mr. Murphy had been very r.-| organising the Bundaberg "ttl tournment. in which prominent r:l

.: U7ITH Mrs. Vaughan a* a small -; *» week-end home a." 1 ayi~r Ba; "' were Mr. James Vaughan. her hus- ! band: Mr. Albert Perry, also o" ""- Chatswood: Mr. Charles Leyshon and .: his mother. Mrs. Jar.e Leyshon. - A!' have eouai shares in the inThe f.ve members of the Sydney ! for years anu have regularly invested ; in imer-State investments They will each collect £SOOO. '. This is the first occasion on which '.. they have won a prize. ! Vaughan's name" ; Speechless When Told. Mr?. Vaughan received the ticke' - just before the party left their home? ' to go to Xewport for the week-end— ' The two ladies were speechless : when the "Sunday Sun" reporter ' told them, of their good fortune '< > Then Mrs. Vaughan shrieked excit- < : ear-'. "We've done it" and there was i general pandemonium. i The excited f.ve members o: the - ; syndicate shook hands and hu creed each other and the "Sunday Sun" reporter. : 1 Mr. Vaughan ran out into the rain ! ■ to inform his three sons, who were 7 r visiting a neighbour. They returned. ! ; purring and wet, and there fur- ; j ther rejoicing. ■ 1 | Do Bit To Win War. I c t "^" e . haven't had time to make t