Mammoth Sales Easing

Press, Volume CV, Issue 30965, 22 January 1966, Page 1

Mammoth Sales Easing

(N.Z Press Association) WELLINGTON, January 21. Ticket-sellers in, Wellington feel sales of Mammoth Golden Kiwi lottery tickets are settling down. "There is nothing like the rush for them now that there was for the first one or two lotteries,” a tobacconist said today. The No. 9 Mammoth lottery, which went on sale on December 1. should be sold

i out in the next week, sellers say. Most tickets in the first Mammoth lotteries were gone 20 minutes after they were put on sale. The sellers say the Mammoth lottery is attracting more buyers than Australian lotteries. “There is a steady demand for Mammoth lottery tickets, but Australian tickets take some time to sell,” one said. “I think the public has got to the stage where they buy a ticket in the Mammoth lottery when they can afford it, or when they feel like it, rather than rushing in and getting one at all costs. “The lottery seems to me to

be settling down to the way it should run,” he said. The sellers said they thought each Mammoth lottery would be drawn as soon as it sold out, and another Mammoth started immediately. Tickets for No. 10 Mammoth Golden Kiwi Lottery should be on sale next Tuesday, the organiser of the Golden Kiwi lotteries, Mr N. McArthur, said today. About 99 per cent of the tickets in the No. 9 Mammoth lottery, which was expected to close on Monday or Tuesday, had been sold and recall notices had been posted today to all ticket-sellers, he said.