POOR MAN’S LUCK.
<.•20.000 L’IiJZE WON. FOOT'RALE RE'S FLTS FORECAST. LONDON, Sept. 19. A. prize of £20.000 given by the Sunday Despatch for forecasting correctly 24 football results was won by Tom Hartley. He is an unemployed loom sweeper, and lias been frequently “on ‘.he dole" this year. Since Hartley and his wife were II tears of age. except when lie was on wn service, they have worked side by side at the loom, at which his wife remained while Hartley came to London to receive the cheque. The largest sum he had previously possessed was. £17 — his war gratuity.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 2 October 1928, Page 7
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100POOR MAN’S LUCK. Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 2 October 1928, Page 7
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