MISSING RACE TICKETS
£2B Prop For Table Leg “The Press" Special Service AUCKLAND. December 30. An unsteady table in the beer garden reserve at the Ellerslie racecourse, and the concern of a man for the safety of his spilling glass, saved a better £2B worth of totalisator tickets which he had accidentally thrown away with others that were worthless. The tickets, which made a sizeable wad, were recovered by a friend to prop one leg of the wobbly table. When the group left, the tickets stayed. It was not until some time afterwards that the owner realised they were missing. A frantic search through every pocket followed. Then he recalled the unsteady table and the spilling beer.
After a dash to the beer garden he found the previously rocking table still on its makeshift support. In a moment it was returned to its formed unsteadiness and the better was £2B richer.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29401, 31 December 1960, Page 7
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