NAMES DON’T MATTER
WINNERS OF LOTTERIES SYDNEY, Nov. 28. “Many people buy tickets in assumed names—there is no trouble over the prize money," said Mr. M. S. Quinlin, lottery director recently. He was commenting on the use of the pseudonym “Mr. Menjou, Hollywood, U.5.A.,” by a Sydney man who won third prize in a recent lottery. “People have their own reasons for using other names, some because they are superstitious,” Mr. Quinlin said. “In collecting the prize, the ticketholder has only to prove identity. He must sign a declaration before a justice of the peace and show a bank passbook or some other means of verifying the name.”
It is believed by the lottery office that a number of prizes are still unclaimed because people used assumed names.
The highest unclaimed prize is £SOOO, which was won in 1940 by a man on a ship Advertisements throughout the worid have failed to locate him. It is thought that he may have been killed by enemy action.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22512, 16 December 1947, Page 7
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