LOTTERY SUCCESS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21315, 17 October 1932, Page 10

LOTTERY SUCCESS

AN AUCKLAND SYNDICATE FIRST PRIZE OF £SOOO SIX FORTUNATE MEMBERS * The prizo-winning ticket in the 82nd New South Wales State lottery is held by an Auckland syndicate consisting of Mr. and Mrs. C. Malyon, Miss Hilda Adyo and Miss Doris Adye, all of 32 O'Neill Street, Ponsonby; Mr. W. T. Webb, of 9 Arthur Street, Ponsonby, and Mr. T. Murphy, of 22 Wellcsley Street, City. A press cable message was received from Sydney on Friday evening stating that the first prize of £SOOO had come to Auckland, but that the namo of the holder of the winning ticket was not knoY/n. However, shortly after thrco o'clock on Friday afternoon, Mrs. Malyon had received a cablegram from the agent in Sydney from whom the syndicate had bought the ticket. Within an hour, the other members of the syndicate had been informed of their success. Although the first prize in the lottery is worth £SOOO in Australia, tlio Auckland syndicate will receive only about £4300, as the exchange will amount to about £7OO. "Wo will got about £7OO each," Mr. Malyon said. " Wo arc not losing our heads about it, but an unexpected windfall like this is most useful. Certainly none of us intends to make a sudden 'splash' with the money." Tho ticket, No. 57673, was received by mail from the Sydney agent on Wednesday morning. Mrs. Malyon was falking fo a neighbour on Friday afternoon when tlio cablegram arrived announcing her good fortune. Sho immediately telephoned her husband, who is employed by a soap manufacturing firm in the city, her two sisters, tho Misses Adye, who work in a sports goods warehouse, and Mr. Webb and Mr. Murphy, who arc employed respectively at tho Dcvonport gasworks and a city motor garage. Perhaps the happiest members of tho winning syndicate are Miss Doris Adye and Mr. Webb. " We hope to get married in the New Year," Mr. Webb said yesterday, " and naturally tho money will be exceptionally useful. It is too early to say what we shall do with it, but it will certainly help us to set up our home." Mr. Webb added that he had been out of work for some months recently. Mr. and Mrs. Malyon intend spending part of their winnings on repairs to their house. " There is plenty to do with tho money," Mr. Malyon added. " Wages nowadays are not what they used to be, and I have a wifo and two children to support. The money will bo most helpful in a number of directions." Mr. Murphy is also (lelightcd with his good fortune. He recently took a partnership in a motor repair business, he said, and would bo able to find plenty of uso for the money, .The syndicate has been investing in lottery tickets at intervals for some time, lickets wcro purchased fairly regularly in Tattersall's Sweep, but without success, and then tho syndicate decided to change to the State 'lottery. " This was the second ticket that wo bought from the Sydney agent," Mr. Malyop said. " We paid 5s lOd for it, and I hardly think wo can complain about the odds."