CALCUTTA SWEEP

Greymouth Evening Star, 18 June 1930, Page 11

CALCUTTA SWEEP

INSURANCE AGENT’S LUCK. LONDON, June 3. “There is no doubt that numbers of long-lost relatives and friends will turn up, but everyone will have a great disappointment,” says IT. C. Reeves, 59, of Lighton-Buzzard, an insurance agent, who caused a surprise by banking a cheque for £21,000 realised from the sale of his Diolite ticket in the Calcutta sweepstake. “Nobody will get any of that money out of mo. I am investing £20,000 in gilt-edge securities to produce £lOOO a year, and will freeze on to it.” Thereafter he philosophically continued his customary insurance rounds. Three young Hoylake bricklayers were under the impression that they had the number of Diolite in the Calcutta sweep on the Derby, and a syndicate of bookmakers offered them £12,500 for a half-share. Later they discovered their mistake.

In expressing their disappointment, one of them remarked: “We celebrated our supposed good luck last night, but we must just continue laying bricks.”

LUCKY SPECULATORS. LONDON, June 4. Percy Hogg, a railway enginedriver, of Barnstable, drew the winner of the Calcutta Sweep on behalf of five fel-low-employees and a road sweeper. Lip till midday Hogg and his partners were deaf to offers to buy a share but then succumbed to an offer of £3OOO for a half-share. They receive £67.500 while the buyers get £64,500. The road sweeper, Lock, went to Australia six years before the war, and joined the Australian forces, and was wounded and gassed. He was sweeping the roads when informed of his luck.

Two machinists were at the bench at the motor works at Coventry when they heard that Blenheim had won. They had sold a half-share in a ticket for £2600. They divide £67,100.

A London brewery manager, Mr Aldridge, and a garage manager, Mr Clark, had a Biolite ticket, and sold a half-share for £ll,OOO. They therefore share £27,625.

FARMER’S TICKET

CALCUTTA. June 4. A retired farmer residing at Paari, drew Rustom Pasha in the Calcutta Sweep. Ho refused £2OOO for a quarter .share, and said in order to avoid temptation he was going into hiding. A bookkeeper bachelor at King Williamstown drew Noble Stay. Ho was unperturbed and pursued his candidature for the provincial council election.