SPANISH LOTTERY
poverty-stricken ticket HOLDERS WIN BIG PRIZE.
(Rec. December 25, 5.5 p.m.) Madrid, December 23.
The big prize of £500,000 in a Spanish lottery, which is the most popular, national event of the vear, will be divided between vendors of bananas, chestnut toasters, umbrella repairers, and hawkers living in the poorest quarters of Madrid. The winners contributed the equivalent of a few pence each, and though there are many participants. each will receive a large sum. The lottery is the one tiling discussed in Spain. ’1 he newspapers are devoting pages to the. drawing, and also give the life histories of the winners.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 78, 26 December 1925, Page 5
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