Winning Ticket May Be In Grave
(New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, December 22. The missing Fapatoetoe ticket which is believed to have won first prize of $120,000 in the eighteenth Mammoth Golden Kiwi lottery drawn last Monday may have been buried with its owner, the late Mr T. Henry.
It is an ancient custom ol Maori people to bury with Jie dead their personal possessions. Today, his son, Mr A. Henry, confirmed that this had been done in his father’s case. Thus, the ticket could have been among the possessions The late Mr Henry’s family has no intention of having hi: grave opened to try to tract the ticket “My father is in his lasi resting place and there is n< question of the family ap
plying for a licence under the Burial and Cremation Act to have the grave opened,” said Mr A. Henry. The family was quite prepared to wait the statutory six months before applying for the prize now that the ticket, No. 176397, appeared to be definitely lost He was confident that the ; Papatoetoe hairdresser and tobacconist Mr D. Fairley, who was sure he had written the nom de plume “Dad Hen--1 nery” on the ticket butt, ■ would prove to be right
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31560, 23 December 1967, Page 28
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