ART UNION WINNER
IN VETERANS' HOME HOCKS TO FIND HIS SON When Mr. R. H. Brown, afred 82. reccntlv purchased one of two tickets remaining in a book of tickets in a shop in the " Put and Take" art union, it v. - indc-c-d 3ns lucky <iay. That ticket proved to be the winner of the lir.-i prize of £2<X>o Mr. Brov.n ha- iived at the Veteran-' .Home. Mount Ro.-kill. for the past two year . and the 12000 is the first money lie has ever won in an art union. Mr. Brown, who enlisted with the Royal Army Ordnance Corps and jserved for three years in the Great War—he Rave a false ape—savs that he will have t<> think out what he will do with the money, but in the meantime he intends to "shout" f<n his companion? m the home He has hopes <.f being able to find a sor whom he 3a.-1 heard of a-~ being ir ta ship on the Indian run and bring 'him to New Zealand.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 114, 16 May 1941, Page 5
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