THE "BIG WINDFALL"

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 29, 3 August 1931, Page 3

THE "BIG WINDFALL"

ART UNION DRAWN

FIRST PRIZE TO GISBORNE

The first prize of £2000 in the "Big Windfall" art union, which, was drawn in the Concert Chamber of the Town Hall on Saturday evening, was won by Mr. J. J. Box, Waipaoa, Gisborne. The number was D 35649. According to a Press Association message, the winning ticket was purchased from a street seller in Gisborne the day before the art union closed. Mr. Bos is a storekeeper at Waipaoa, 13 miles from Gisborne. He is 61 years of ago, married, with four children. Formerly he was employed in various stores on. the East Coast. Then he came to Gisborne as representative of Heather Roberton, Ltd., Auckland, merchants. Later he was licensee of the Waercnga-o-kuri Hotel. The biggest prize to come to Wellington was £101), the seventh prize, which went to "Hard Up," 46, King street. The winner was Mr. Frank Keith, who'lost his employment with a firm of bakers three or four months ago, since when he has been out of work. The winning ticket is one of seven or eight which he bought from time to time. The art union was organised for the general purposes of the New Zealand Olymprc Association, which hopes, as a result, to be in a position to send a strong I\ew Zealand team to the Olympic Games at Los Angeles next year. The c' la";n^? o£ the association, Mr. H. Amos, ot Wellington, addressed the audience before the drawing on Saturday evening, and said that the art union had been a success. The total which would be available he said, was well in keeping with the average proceeds of similar art unions. On behalf of the association, he thanked the public for its support. The drawing was on the same lines as • ha*°f,. Previous art unions drawn lately m Wellington. Messrs. N. M'Arthur and «=;^-Hammond, secretary and treasurer respectively, to whose efficient management of the art union Mr. Amos paid a tribute played, their -usual rolesf and generally conducted the draw. Mr A T«t« IYff P- rreSe nted ,the DePartment of Internal Affairs, by whose permission the art union was organised, and Sergeant Simmen r t present for the Poli<* DepartThe big prize was actually the second to last, and was drawn at 8.15 p m a minute or two before the remaining prize was allotted and the draw completed For the last half-hour, as prize followed prize! and the first prize was still to be drawn excitement ran high in the audience ' The full prize list is as follows:—