MANY BEGGING LETTERS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 310, 28 November 1936, Page 5

MANY BEGGING LETTERS

WINNER OF £50,000. TAIHAPE, Nov. 26. Looking fit and well, Air Walter Devon, who recently won £50,000 in the Aid bourne Cup sweepstake, arrived iu Taihape by car last evening, accompanied by two old friends. In a brief interview Air Devon said that he had received many begging fetters. “Do people who ask for money stipulate the amount they want?” inquired the reporter. “Some of them do, and in some cases the amount stipulated is anything but small,” replied Air Devon, who went on to say that he had received many requests for money from people he did not know. When he visited the Bank of New South Wales at Taihape yesterday morning to “sign along the dotted line” and so become the richer by £50,000 less the rate of exchange between Australia and New Zealand, there was a bundle of mail waiting for him. He also received a similar bundle of correspondence at Aloawliango. Contrary to general belief, Mr Devon was not actually paid in cash, hut his banking account was credited with £50,000, less exchange. On the present conversion rate between Australia and New Zealand he should receive £49,504 19s. Questioned regarding the future, Air Devon replied that his plans were still indefinite, but he added that he intended to' go to England for the Coronation.