WINNING TICKET IN SWEEPSTAKE

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21123, 26 March 1934, Page 12

WINNING TICKET IN SWEEPSTAKE

i -♦ — -- I • t ' I Holders m [North | ! r Island GOLDEN MILLER DRAWN BY OI'OITERE RESIDENTS j j'fllE TRESS Special Service.] 1 | AUCKLAND, March 25. l | Advice has been received that i Golden Miller, the winning horse in t | the Liverpool Grand National . i Steeplechase, has been drawn by j I residents of Opoutere, about 30 t miles from YVaihi, in an overseas i I sweepstake, believed to be the Bri- J [ tish International Association's Dan- j I zi.a Sweepstake. Mrs Stevens, of I j Opoutere. received a telegram at Devonpoi't on Friday from her hus- I band readme;: "Received cable from <= I London, Durrant and Stevens, |. j AZ48075, drew Golden Miller, pay- 1 ins 7 l-'J P cl " L ' cn U P ro rata." ' l Mrs Stevens, who is on a visit to j her mother-in-law, of Devonport,; i remembers buying a ticket in an | • overseas sweepstake some months < x ago in partnership with her brother, I Mr F. Durrant, of Opoutere, and!* j she thinks her husband bought a| ticket with some other members of;-, the Durrant family. She put her , r ticket away and thought no more 1 1 about it until she received the tele-D' gram, and is unable to recall _ in;' i which sweepstake she invested. She | I has been unable to gain any fur-i J I tber details from her husband as j I he is employed m a forestry camp j \ some miles from the nearest tele- ;. phone and she does not oven yet s know whether her own or her husband's ticket was the winning one. J On being shown a Danzig sweep ; J i ticket bv a neighbour, however, she ( .'stated that the tickets bought by , ' herself and her husband were of a t : similar design. j The sweepstake originally pro- ' < I vided for the distribution of £50,000 > 1 in prise monev, the first prize win-' \ nor receiving' ,C 15,000. This amount 1 lias apparently been greatly re- T i reduced, however, as- was the case ; i last. \ear, owing to the sales ot , ; tickets being below expectations. If .- i (bo amount is only 7 1-3 per cent., i a.-, mentioned in the cable, the bolder j ; of ih ■ winning ticket will receive J C 1 Km, oi- L L 175 plus exchange, j La.-t vear there were five ticket ( holders in Auckland, and one i'( them earned second pri/e. On that occasion la'- Pf'i" cci'il. of the original ainounl nl the prize money was i