IDLE RICHES
WINNER RETURNS TO PLUMBING When a few weeks ago, 35-year-old Mr. R. W. C. Smith, of Caverton Building’s, Bath, won £15,128 for a penny to a football pool, he gave up his work as a plumber. But after a week of idleness, which bored him, of begging letters and of advice from well-meaning people in
I the street he went back to hisi job. A Hull man who won! a £3OOO pool .prize gave £lOOO to a church, £lOOO Ito his. parents and built a house and Jgot married! on the balance.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 21 April 1938, Page 2
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94IDLE RICHES Greymouth Evening Star, 21 April 1938, Page 2
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