LUCKY TICKETS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22256, 8 May 1934, Page 8

LUCKY TICKETS

FARMER WINS £IOOO FOURTH PRIZE IN CONSULTATION (Per United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, May 7. Advice was received to-day that New Zealand subscribers had won the fourth and seventh prizes in a consultation of £12,000 drawn in Hobart, Tasmania, under Government supervision. The winner of the fourth prize, which amounts to £IOOO, was ticket No. 132130, held by W. E, A., Sedd-el-Bahr, Martinborough, and. the seventh prize of £250 was won by ticket No, 26057, held by the “ Full Crop ” syndicate, care of Mrs N. N., Tahunanui, Nelson. The winner of the fourth prize of £IOOO is believed to be Mr W. E. Arcus, a farmer living about 15 miles from Martinborough, in the Wairarapa district. Mr Arcus’s farm is named Sedd-el-bahr after a spot in Gallipoli where he was wounded during the War. He has not yet received his ticket, so the number cannot be confirmed, but, as be invested in the lottery under the name of “W. E. A., Sedd-el-bahr, Martinborough.” he is practically certain to be the winner of the prize. Mr Arcus is married, and has five children. He is engaged in sheep farming, and has 700 acres of land. When informed of his good fortune by telephone, Mr Arcus said be had not formed any definite plans ns to what he would do with the money as he had never really expected to win a' prize. The news had come as a complete supripe, but he had no doubt the money would be very useful on the farm. This was the first occasion on which he had invested in a lottery for several years.