WON HOTEL IN LOTTERY
Woman Pays Out £1S 9 000 (N.Z Press Association—Copyright) MELBOURNE, July 2. A butcher's wife, Mrs Daisy Barker, who won the £190,000 Pacific Hotel at Manly in a lottery, has paid out £, 18.000—and the hotel still does not belong to her.
• Mrs Barker, aged 66, of Dunolly, Victoria, said: “It’s causing us more worry than we’ve eVer had. Sometimes I wish we'd never bought the winning ticket.” Legal technicalities have held up the transfer of the hotel deeds. Now the Valuer-General says the hotel is worth only £130.000, says Mrs Barker. Bills she has had to face included:
£6OOO for rates, licensing fee, and repairs to a lift. £5OOO for stock, although she thought this was included in the prize. £2300 for stamp duty on the transfer of deeds.
And licensing police have told her tb repaint the hotel. Estimated cost —£10,000.
“If the banks had not stood behind me I don’t know what I wpuld have done.” said . Mrs Barker. She was “very disappointed” at the attitude, taken by the Christian Brothers who promoted the lottery.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28937, 3 July 1959, Page 5
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