DERBY SWEEPSTAKE.
HUGE PROSPECTIVE PRIZES. MORE THAN £500,000 IN HAND. LONDON, May 2. More than £500,000 has been subscribed to the London Stock Exchange sweep on the Derby. This is double the amount subscribed last year. The lists have been closed. The value of the prizes has not yet been fixed, but the first will bo well over £IOO,OOO, compared with £50,000 lost year. Ten per cent, of the prize money will go to charities. When it was started in 1902 the sweep was worth only £IOO.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19940, 8 May 1928, Page 10
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87DERBY SWEEPSTAKE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19940, 8 May 1928, Page 10
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