“Mitchell, Outram” In No Hurry To Claim £12,000

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30481, 1 July 1964, Page 1

“Mitchell, Outram” In No Hurry To Claim £12,000

(New Zealand Press Association?

DUNEDIN, June 30. Mr L. C. Mitchell, the Outram farmer, who thought he won the £12,000 first prize in the No. 158 Golden Kiwi lottery, but had burnt the ticket, did not win it. The winner lives in the same district and is also a farmer, but his name is not Mitchell, and he wants to remain anonymous. The lottery was drawn last Thursday and the winning ticket was 92811. The stub of the winning ticket was signed “Mitchell, Outram.” The winner has always used the name Mitchell as a nom de plume when taking lottery tickets. The warning ticket was sold by Mr J. J. Hargreaves, a hairdresser in Moray place, Dunedin. Mr Hargreaves received £5O today from the Golden Kiwi lottery master agents.

Hammond and McArthur, in Wellington, as his commission for selling the winning ticket. Mr Hargreaves said the winner was in no hurry to claim the prize. Mr Hargreaves’s wife, who works in the hairdressing shop,' said she had, in the past, signed lottery ticket butts “Mitchell, Outram,” for the man who won the first prize. The winner bought lottery tickets only when he was in the shop for a haircut, Mr Hargreaves said. When told this evening that he had not won the £12,000 prize, Mr L. C. Mitchell said: “It is just one of those things. "I had to take the brunt of the publicity and someone else gets the prize. Not that it worries me. I would have taken a lot of convincing before I would have believed it was me who had won.”