$4O fine snags BMW prize

Press, 26 October 1989, Page 6

$4O fine snags BMW prize

By

PAM MORTON

A Christchurch man who won a $40,000 BMW car in a national sales promotion arrived to pick up the vehicle yesterday, only to find a $4O parking ticket on it. Mr Kingsley Burrell won the car after buying a stereo from the Christchurch store Alan Hughey Hi Fi last month. Anyone who bought a Technics stereo in July, August or September was eligible to enter the draw for the car.

The owner of the store, Mr

Alan Hughey, sai he had parked dthe car on the footpath outside his Armagh Street shop yesterday morning to display it “It had only been there about five minutes before a traffic officer came along and wrote out a ticket.”

Mr Hughey said he would meet the cost of the ticket.

More than 1000 people had entered the draw.

Mr Burrell, a Paparua prison officer, is married with four children.

The family owns a 1973 Falcon

station-waggon which it intends to keep, as the BMW is too small for six people. “The BMW will get the garage and the Falcon will have to go out in the rain.” Mr Burrell said he was not even aware of the competition before he bought a stereo from the shop. His wife, Annette, had been persuaded to fill out a form for the draw by Mr Hughey. “I might take competitions a bit more seriously now,” she said.