Raffle winner may be Chch man

Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34046, 9 January 1976, Page 10

Raffle winner may be Chch man

A Christchurch man, Mr ■ William Sawyers, may have won prizes worth SI 300 in a Christmas raffle in Victoria. Mr Sawyers, a seaman tn the Karen Tide, at present at New Plymouth, telephoned “The Press” early this morning to say that he thinks he ( is the man the Mildura; Lions Club is looking for—l to present with a raffle prize.: News of the club’s search: : for the Mr Sawyers from [ ! New Zealand was reported : by the Press Association yes-i terday. The raffle was drawn on i Christmas Eve, but all' ■ attempts to find Mr Sawyers! 'had failed. The prizes include a glass- . fibre boat, a portable television set. a cassette tape recorder, a child’s bicycle,! : toys, cosmetics, Christmas hamper, a week-end for two

at a Melbourne motel, j assorted biscuits and confec- |, tionery, and a car trailer to , • carry' it all. When Mr Sawyers bought I I the ticket at a street stand! in Mildura he told the seller,! Mr Bill Oakes: “I’m not!

[likely to win. You put your i address on the ticket butt, .that will make it easy. Mr Sawyers said today that he had been in Mildura, and he thought he had taken a ticket in the particular ; raffle. However, he took so I many tickets in lotteries and i raffles that he would not J know for sure until he returned to Christchurch in about two weeks and checked his tickets. Although his first name is I William, his nickname is Tom, and this is usually how ■he fills out raffle tickets.