The Winners’ Transformed Finances

Northern Advocate, 5 July 1939, Page 8

The Winners’ Transformed Finances

“MY LUCK TURNS" ART UNION

(Per Press Association. Copyright .l CHRISTCHURCH. Tuesday. Possessors of £2o3o—but “broke.”. This was the singular position this morning of Mr E. V. Reynolds, aged 21, and Mr T. J. Stewart, aged 20, of Christchurch. Winners of the first prize of £2OOO in “My Luck Turns” Art Union they did not have a penny between them.

In a tiny room above a_ second-hand shop in Colombo Street, young Mr Reynolds listened intently to the .spluttering of his radio when the draw was being broadcast from Wellington last night. His radio was not working well, but he managed to pick up the last three numbers of the winning ticket, and the nom de plume, “Two Drunkards.”

Tense with excitement, convinced that he and his pal were the winners, Mr Reynolds waited for a later .announcement before he let his feelings run away with him. Alone in the tiny attic room which is his home, he dressed, and hastened to an hotel. His pal, Mr Stewart, was on night duty. This morning the two young men told how one Friday night about a month ago they were walking up the city when they decided to share in the art union ticket. They could not think of a suitable nom de plume, and so. “just for devilment,” they used “Two Drunkards.” They joked among themselves this morning. Mr Reynolds, who is a tyre worker, is at present out. of work. “I borrowed 15/- from my cobber on Friday night,” he said. “I made the remark then, ‘Don’t worry about it; we will win the art union on Monday.’ But now I can toss him double or quits.”

A message from Paris reports that trade negotiations between Franco and Italy have recommenced. .