$17M prize unclaimed
NZPA-Reuter Toronto Somewhere in Ontario someone is a multi-million-aire, but the winner of North America’s biggest tax-free lottery prize has still not come forward.
Lottery mania hit Canada over the last two weeks as millions tried to scoop the jackpot in the national lottery in which players must name six numbers between
one and 49. Last Saturday night, the big build-up ended when computers showed that one lucky ticket bought in Ontario, Canada’s most populous province, had the right six numbers and had scooped the SUSII million (about SNZI7 million) prize. Under the lottery rules, the winner’s name has to be published but three days after the big result, no-one
has yet come forward to claim the giant prize. A lottery official said, “I feel very much like the person who threw a party and the guest of honour didn’t come.”
The big winner is losing about SUS3OOO ($4600) a day in interest but the official suggested that he might be trying to get his life in order before the full glare of publicity hit him.
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