LUCKY PRIZE-WINNER.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20987, 25 September 1931, Page 6

LUCKY PRIZE-WINNER.

£2OOO IN ART UNION. HEWS RECEIVED BY TELEPHONE. Spending the evening quietly at the schoolhouse at Flemington, a few miles »<wth of Ashburton, where his daughter is in charge, Mr. H A. Humphries was advised by telephone of his good fortune in the Lucky Bird .Art Union, which is in aid of the New Zealand Native Bird Protection Society. "There was nothing further from my mind on Saturday evening, he stated, /'than the drawing of the art union, let alone the possibility of being It lucky ticket-holder. The first intimation I received of my good luck was when I received a telephone message at p.m. Naturally when I was informed that it had been announced over the wireJess than I had drawn the first prize of £2OOO, I considered the news too good to be true. It was certainly hard to realise," jbe added with a smile of satisfaction. Asked if he had considered how he would invest his unexpected "windfall" Mr. Humphries, who has conducted a business in Ashburton, specialising in art needlework and hosiery, since he left the employ of the New Zealand Farmers Cooperative Association four and a-half years ago, after 26 years with that firrn, stated that he would find good use for it in these hard times.