WINNER OF £12,000

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21905, 14 September 1934, Page 10

WINNER OF £12,000

OVERSEAS SWEEPSTAKE T A DUNEDIN SYNDICATE || TWO HARBOUR EMPLOYEES If £1250 FOR AUCKLANDER |j New Zealand subscribers won tbo §§ first and the third prizes in tho .. § £12,000 consultation sweepstake drawn |S on Wednesday in Hobart, Tasmania, j under Government supervision, accord- ft ing to private advice received yesterday in Auckland. The ticket which won the first prize of £12,000 was Number 29060, held in | the name cf the "Hopeful Syndicate," , care of A.W.H., Roslyn, Dunedin. fcjgl The winner of the third prize of gS| £1250 was G.T., of Freeman's Bay, Auckland, whose ticket was Number 100078.

The first prize winners, according to I a telegram received from Dunedin, ar« two employees of the Otago Harbour Board, Messrs. A. W. Henderson and A. Cranshaw. Mr. Henderson lives at 27 Bruce Street, Roslyn, and Mr. Cran-, shaw in Stafford Street, Dunedin. Mr. and Mrs. Henderson, who have ; f| three children, have not yet decided what they will do with their share of iff the £12,000, but, as the former said: "You be sure it will not be§l wasted." It is a particularly opportune windfall, since Mr. Henderson, who ia employed on the Harbour Board's dredge Otakou, has been working only four davs a week this year, and last vear he worked only three days a week. If Mr. and Mrs. Henderson have no definite plans for the use of their unexpected wealth, however, the children have, since the first thing their small son said when he was told of the good < news was: "Now we will be able to buy a motor-car." Mr. Henderson is a young man and Mr. Cranshaw, who is a bachelor, is of middle age. ' W The winner of the third prize of £1250 is Mr. George Tylecoat, tobac-, conist, of 4 Patteson Street, Freeman'i Bay, City. Mr. Tylecoat did not hear of his good fortune until late last evening, when inquiries by the Herald led. to the identification of his number. "I can do with this stroke of luck," he said, "but I shall just carry on. The win will certainlv make the going a lot easier." Mr. Tylecoat is a widower with, a family of grown children, and he hai; been established in business at his present premises for some years. He nan purchased several tickets in consultations in the past, but this is his first' success. .