MOTOR-CAR CLAIMED
PRIZE IN ART UNION How a woman owned a new motor car, valued at £298, for three weeks without being aware of it was disclosed .this week when the first prize in the Victory Art Union was claimed. The winning ticket was bought by Mr. Joseph Fallaze, a window cleaner, of 9 Counsel terrace, Mount Albert Auckland, who gave it to his wife as a present. The ticket was put away, and neither Mr. Fallaze nor his wife noticed the announcement of the drawing of the art union on January 28. The Patriotic Sports Committee, which conducted the art union m aid of patriotic funds, made several efforts to trace the owner of the ticket, but it was not until a few days ago that Mrand Mrs. Fallaze became aware of their good fortune when a paragraph appeared in the press announcing that the prize had not been collected. The paragraph gave the nom-de-plume and serial number of the winning ticket, and Mr. Fallaze remembered that he had signed the butt “One Day’s Holiday.” A hasty check of the number confirmed that, they had won the prize. Had it not been claimed within months, the motor car would have become the property of the Government. Mr. Fallaze has a son in training at Fapakura military camp.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20486, 21 February 1941, Page 4
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