£l0,000 PRIZE IN LOTTERY

Press, Volume C, Issue 29517, 19 May 1961, Page 16

£l0,000 PRIZE IN LOTTERY

When you have won £lO,OOO it is hard to realise it, according to Mr and Mrs R. G. Hall, of Walker street. Kaiapoi. Mr Hall won first prize in a Melbourne lottery drawn on Wednesday with ticket No. 121868. Plane would come later, they said. Mr Hall has put the ticket in a bank until it is sent by registered post to Melbourne. Mr Hall, a foreman in the casings department at the Belfast works of the Canterbury Frozen Meat Company, Ltd., was working when the news reached him yesterday morning. He could not leave the work he was doing, and did not stop until after lunch. Except in the war years. Mr Hall has bought tickets in the lottery since 1932. He usually signs them “Anzac Day” or “April 25,” his birthday. Mr Hall is 43. He won £5 in a lottery

MB AND MRS HALL photographed at their home yesterday. two days ago, and £5 several years ago. When the news reached him of the £5 two days ago he commented: “Oh, well, it’s got to be the big prize next time. “There is definitely no system in the way I buy tickets.” Mr Hall said. A member of a syndicate that buvs tickets regularly. Mr Hall won with one of those he occasionally bought himself. Mrs Hall runs a general store in front of their house in Walker street. She is a native of Edinburgh. She met Mr Hall after the war in Scotland and returned with him to Kaiapoi, Mr Hall’s birthplace. They have no children. “I will probably get rid of the shop when I get around to it,” said Mr Hall. He intends to continue working at. the freezing works. Mrs Hall may now have another trip to Scotland. She went about foiir years ago. During the war. when he was serving with the A.S.C. supply column in the Ist Echelon. Mr Hall was captured in Crete, and was a prisoner of war for four years.

The tobacconist from whom Mr Hall bought his ticket. Mr G. C. Adams, of Cookson street, Kaiapoi, • has sold tickets which have won prizes of £lO,OOO. £lOO. £5O. and £lO in the last four

weeks. About seven years ago he sold ’ a ticket which won £ 1200. Two other hairdressers in the same block have sold tickets which won first prize in the Melbourne lottery. Mr G. Witte sold a winning ticket about three years ago, and Mr J. H. Thompson sold one about 15 years ago.