£500,000 LOTTERY
AVON BA' SLUM RESIDENTS (Aust. and N.Z. Cable). Madrid; Dec. 2d. The big pi we of £51)0,000 in a Spanish lottery, which is the most popular national event of the year, will be divided between vendors of bananas, chestnut toasters, umbrella repairers, and hawkers living in the poorest quarters of -Madrid,.-who contributed a few pence each. Though there are many participants in the prize, each will receive a large sum. The lottery is the one thing discussed in Spain. The newspapers devoted pages to the story of the drawing and to the life histories of the winners.
TO GAS BURGLARS (Aust. and N.Z. Cable). ■ New A urk Dee. 23. As a precaution against the epidemic of robbers, the tax collection offices have been' equipped with tievices to discharge tear gas in the event of ah attempted hold-up, while money bags when opened l)y an unauthorised person, spurt gas in sufficient quantity to rentier the opener unconscious. A'
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Feilding Star, Volume 3, Issue 551, 28 December 1925, Page 7
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