£1000 LOTTERY PRIZE

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25303, 1 October 1947, Page 2

£1000 LOTTERY PRIZE

TWO CHRISTCHURCH WOMEN SHARE TICKET “£looo—‘Joan and Pat,’ Christchurch, New Zealand.” This entry in the list of winning tickets in a recent overseas lottery made welcome reading for two shorthand typists in a Hereford street office this week. They were Mrs Joan Baker and Miss Pat Twomey, who took a ticket in thp lottery under the nom-de-plurne of “Joan and Pat.” Miss "Twomey, when interviewed last evening at the home of her parents, Mr and Mrs P. Twomey, 58 Cleveland street, St. Albans, said that they would have to wait until they received their ticket by surface mail before they could be quite certain they had won the prize. The list of results they had seen had been sent by air mail. This lottery was the third she had entered. She and Mrs Baker had won £5 with the first ticket they shared. They had received advice of their first win last Thursday, and saw their nom-de-plume opposite the £lOOO prize on Monday of this week. “I suppose I’ll put it under the clock,” said Miss Twomey laughingly, when asked what she intended to do with her share of the prize. She sail she was not making any plans until she heard definitely that she and Mrs Baker were the “Joan and Pat” in the prize list. Miss Twomey said she “hadn’t lost any sleep thinking about it.”