FIRST PRIZE IN ART UNION
WON BY EIGHT DUNEDIN MEN [United Press Association] DUNEDIN, 24th October. Eight employees in a Dunedin foundry are richer by some hundreds of pounds each as the result of a small investment in the “Who’s Next?” art union, and, though the first prize of £2OOO has had to be divided among eight men, all of the men are probably now convinced that they are not such “mugs” as their nom-de-plume would indicate. The winners are employed at Crittall Metal Windows (N.Z.), Ltd. Two of the men are father and son, and each of the winners is married. During winter months they and two others invested 3d every week in a football “pool,” and when the season ended they decided to spend their money on an art union ticket. Two, however, did not feel inclined to invest in this form of gamble, so that two of the eight left took a double share. They will receive £4OO each and the other six £2OO.
The winners prefer to remain anonymous so far as the general public is concerned.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 25 October 1940, Page 4
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181FIRST PRIZE IN ART UNION Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 25 October 1940, Page 4
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