Prize arrives before tickets
PA Auckland An Auckland couple have won Australian lottery prizes worth sAust36o,ooo ($403,200) before they even received their tickets. Mr and Mrs McNally sent a letter and a $2O cheque to Brisbane a fortnight ago seeking a book of tickets in the Endeavour Foundation Grant Art Union.
The tickets were posted last week, but before they arrived in New Zealand the lottery organisers telephoned the McNallys to tell them they had won. First prize is a fully furnished six-bedroom house on a sha property just out of Brisbane. Because the McNallys’ ticket was part of a book purchase, they have also won a Mitsubishi Colt car, making the total prize worth sAust36o,ooo.
Mr McNally, a builder, is finishing a new home at Clarks Beach, 25km southwest of Papakura, on the southern shore of Manukau Harbour. “So we are not about to go off and leave this,” Mrs McNally said last evening during a quiet celebration with her family. She said she could "hardly believe my ears” when her husband telephoned her at work yesterday to tell her about the call from Brisbane.
“It is just incredible — we often take tickets in the Art Union or in Lotto, but never expected to win something as big as this.” The McNallys will fly to Australia today to arrange how to sell the Brisbane house.
“But we will probably bring back some of the furniture and the car,” Mrs McNally said.
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