Jaguar owner still at school

Press, 15 April 1986, Page 1

Jaguar owner still at school

Greymouth reporter, and PA Dion Gibbens, a Cobden schoolboy, won an XJ Jaguar AG saloon car, valued at $120,000, in a national raffle, organised by the Motorsport Association of New Zealand, but he is unlikely to keep it “It is a bit expensive for a 17-year-old,” said his mother yesterday. “He is still at school and he couldn’t afford the petrol for it let alone the $5OOO insurance premium for a start”

Dion, in addition, does not yet have a driver’s licence.

A sixth-form pupil at John Paul II High School, Greymouth, he bought the $5 raffle ticket while working during the school holidays. Last week, Dion received a telephone call from the national raffle

organisers telling him he bad won second prize. Dion bought the ticket while working at a cycle shop in Greymouth.

“I will more than likely sell the car, as it is impractical for me to keep it,” Dion said, adding he and his father would travel to Christchurch to pick it up. Although Dion won only second prize in the raffle, he has not come off second best

The first prize was a Citroen worth only $18,200. Raffle organisers said the fact that the second prize in the “Beauty and the Beast” raffle was worth more had been a gimmick, “a selling point,”

There were no rules that said first prizes should be worth more than subsequent prizes, a spokesman said.